7/26/2023 0 Comments Let your name be a byword![]() ![]() No that’s not the same because 1 & 2 Corinthians are clearly two separate letters written at different times with different purposes intended to be read apart from one another. ![]() If you’d like to study these super-long books of the Bible in their original Hebrew, check out Zondervan Academic’s online course! (That’s an affiliate link.) This doesn’t change its place in the order, though. One verse in Jeremiah is in Aramaic, not Hebrew (Jer 10:11), so adding those words brings the total up to 33,002. I got all these Greek and Hebrew counts (from the resources I chose) in an evening’s work!Īddendum: turns out Jeremiah is a few words longer than I originally accounted for. Wonder how I made those word counts? It wasn’t as tedious a task as it may seem. Turns out Logos Bible Software lets you copy the words from Hebrew and Greek texts in list form, then export them to Excel. So, if you want to get to know one of these long books of the Bible better, set aside a Saturday to spend reading it all the way through. But even books this big are best read as a whole. So, what if we were looking for the longest book of the Bible in its original format? First, we would combine First and Second Samuel, First and Second Kings, First and Second Chronicles, and Ezra with Nehemiah. Kind of like how The Lord of the Rings was written as just one work, but got split into three volumes to keep the price low enough for the average novel enthusiast. So they split it up into parts one and two. But back then, you wrote these kinds of stories on scrolls: and Samuel was just too long to reasonably fit on one. Why?įor example, First Samuel and Second Samuel were originally just Samuel. Several books of the Old Testament are actually volumes of a larger original work. This count is a little deceptive, though. So Jeremiah is the longest book of the Bible, right? Sure, if we’re going by modern books and their arrangements. ![]() Reimer‘s list on Justin Taylor’s blog-though Reimer’s count puts Isaiah before Exodus.) (For the most part, this lines up with David J. ![]() Notice anything interesting? The entire top-10 list of longest books in the Bible are all Old Testament books! Four of the five books of the Torah are here, all three major prophets are present, and even one book of poetry made it into the top 10. I referenced the Lexham Hebrew Bible for OT books and the NA27 for NT books, and here’s what I got: This is going by word count in the original languages (not any English translation of the Bible). Here’s a list of the ten longest books of the Bible. I used Logos Bible Software to find out which books are the longest, by original word count. Psalms is a long book, for sure, but its psalms are pretty short (for the most part).Įven though Psalms has more contributors than any other book of the Bible, it turns out that two other books are much longer than Psalms. You can probably guess why this is incorrect. If you’d asked me about it in Sunday school, my answer would have been a quick, confident “ Psalms!” I figured this because the book has 150 psalms, and the runner-up in chapter count would have been Isaiah, with a meager 66 chapters-that’s less than half of what Psalms has. We’ve taken a look at the shortest books in the Bible, but what about the longest book in the Bible? ![]()
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