For Jews and Christians, the Bible is a collection of sacred books is the basis of their respective faiths. However, for Jews the Bible is reduced to the Old Testament. For these classes consists of three books, which are the Torah, or law, the prophetic books, and a third heterogeneous group of texts. For all branches of Christianity, Roman Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, etc., "the Bible are not limited to the Old Testament, but also the New Testament. It includes the Gospels of St. Luke, San Juan, San Marcos and San Mateo, the Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles and the Apocalypse s. For Roman Catholics, the Bible consists of 75 books, 45 of which correspond to the Old Testament and the New 25.
The Old Testament text presents a very different characteristics. Combining the epic, the song and the oracle with the biography, the aphorism and prophecy. The predominant language of poetry. The New Testament, however, typically have a didactic tone.