THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW SCHOLARSHIP THE CHAPTER I THE ENGLISH BIBLE I. THE OLD TESTAMENT HE books of the Hebrew Bible are arranged in three great divisions, called, respectively, The Law, The Prophets, and The Writings. The first of these great sections, the Law, comprises the five books which we commonly call the Pentateuch. These five books are treated in the Hebrew as one whole, and called not "the five books," but "the five parts of the Law." These five parts are named, respectively, after the words with which they commence: "In the beginning," "And these are the names," "And he called," "In the wilderness" (not the first but almost the first word of Numbers in the Hebrew original), and "These are the words." The second great division, called the Prophets, is divided into two sections, called, respectively, the Former Prophets and the Latter Prophets, each of which consists of four books: the Former Prophets being Joshua, Judges, Samuel (in two parts), and Kings (also in two parts); and the Latter Prophets consisting of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve, that is the twelve minor prophets, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, which are regarded as one book, and are arranged among themselves in a purely haphazard manner, as it would seem, and not according to any system that has yet been discovered. The third great division, the Writings, consists of Psalms, |