Reorganized Canon
The editors of the Christian Community Bible have slightly reorganized the books of the bible with respect to the usual Catholic canon. While the New Testament books are found in the same order as they are found in other Catholic bibles, this is not the case for the Old Testament (the Hebrew Bible and the deuterocanonical books). According to the introduction to the seventeenth edition: "Here we kept, in broad outlines, the distribution of the books according to the three categories present in the Jewish or Hebrew bible." The result is that the Christian Community Bible's order is a blend of the Jewish and Catholic order (here represented by the Douay-Rheims Bible):
| Tanakh (Jewish Bible) |
Christian Community Bible |
Douay-Rheims Bible |
|---|---|---|
| Torah or Pentateuch | ||
| Genesis | Genesis | Genesis |
| Exodus | Exodus | Exodus |
| Leviticus | Leviticus | Leviticus |
| Numbers | Numbers | Numbers |
| Deuteronomy | Deuteronomy | Deuteronomy |
| Nevi'im or Prophets | Historical books | |
| Joshua | Joshua | Joshua |
| Judges | Judges | Judges |
| see below | see below | Ruth |
| Samuel | 1 Samuel | 1 Samuel |
| 2 Samuel | 2 Samuel | |
| Kings | 1 Kings | 1 Kings |
| 2 Kings | 2 Kings | |
| Chronicles see below |
1 Chronicles | 1 Paralipomenon |
| 2 Chronicles | 2 Paralipomenon | |
| Ezra (includes Nehemiah) see below |
Ezra | 1 Esdras |
| Nehemiah | 2 Esdras (Nehemias) | |
| see below | Tobit | |
| see below | Judith | |
| see below | see below | Esther |
| 1 Maccabees | 1 Machabees | |
| 2 Maccabees | 2 Machabees | |
| Wisdom books |
||
| see below | see below | Job |
| see below | see below | Psalms |
| see below | see below | Proverbs |
| see below | see below | Ecclesiastes |
| see below | see below | Song of Solomon |
| see below | Wisdom | |
| see below | Ecclesiasticus | |
| Major prophets | ||
| Isaiah | Isaiah | Isaias |
| Jeremiah | Jeremiah | Jeremias |
| see below | see below | Lamentations |
| see below | Baruch | |
| Ezekiel | Ezekiel | Ezechiel |
| see below | see below | Daniel |
| Minor prophets | ||
| The Twelve Prophets | Hosea | Osee |
| Joel | Joel | |
| Amos | Amos | |
| Obadiah | Abdias | |
| Jonah | Jonah | |
| Micah | Micaeus | |
| Nahum | Nahum | |
| Habakkuk | Habacuc | |
| Zephaniah | Sophonias | |
| Haggai | Aggaeus | |
| Zechariah | Zacharias | |
| Malachi | Malachias | |
| see below | Daniel | see above |
| Ketuvim or Writings | ||
| Psalms | see below | see above |
| Proverbs | see below | see above |
| Job | Job | see above |
| see above | Proverbs | see above |
| see below | Ecclesiastes | see above |
| Song of Songs | Song of Songs | see above |
| Ruth | Ruth | see above |
| Lamentations | Lamentations | see above |
| Ecclesiastes | see above | see above |
| Esther | Esther | see above |
| Tobit | see above | |
| Judith | see above | |
| Baruch | see above | |
| Wisdom | see above | |
| Sirach | see above | |
| see above | Psalms | see above |
| Daniel | see above | see above |
| Ezra (includes Nehemiah) | see above | see above |
| Chronicles | see above | see above |
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