Jewish Bibles, while containing exactly the same collection of books as the Protestant Old Testament, order the books according to the logic of these three sections. The Torah is simply the first ...

Augustine, he even lists the canon of the Old Testament and it ... of a different order . . . such as Job and Tobit and Esther and Judith and the two books of Maccabees, and the two of Esdras ...

The Old Testament books are grouped in the following manner: 1) Historical books, which are arranged not in the order in which they were written but according to the order of events in time which ...