Be The Fruit

How should the books of the OT be ordered?

by Bill Blair on 30/12/08 at 5:36 am

Dr. Jim Hamilton poses this interesting question in a guest spot over at Moore to the Point in a post that can be read here.

Maybe you thought the Bible was just brought down from heaven in a nice leather bound package complete with red letters and study notes, but the reality is that the books of the Bible were written at different time by different people — all inspired by God — over many many years.  If fact, I think one of the marks of the Scriptures’ divinity is how cohesive the story and teaching are throughout the Bible even though they were written over so many years by different people.  The order of the books, as we know them today, were put together through the tradition of the church.

In his post, Dr. Hamilton explains that we might just have the order of the Old Testament books wrong, and we might be missing some of the cohesiveness of the story as a result.  He makes some very interesting points as to why we should consider changing the order of the OT.  I was working on my 2009 Bible reading plan today, and I think I might give his order a try and see how it reads.  Read his post here.

One thought I had regarding the reordering is, “What would that do to the Bible drill people?”