DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
66 in a Protestant Bible (39 Old Testament + 27 New). A Catholic Bible has 73 — it includes books like Tobit and Maccabees — and Eastern Orthodox Bibles have more still.
Why it’s interesting
There isn't one universally agreed "Bible" table of contents; the number depends on the tradition. The extra books, called the deuterocanon or Apocrypha, were part of many Bibles for centuries.
Scholarly consensus
You can know the Bible.
Not just the stories, but the history, authorship, and scholarship behind it.