Bible

The Bible refers to the sacred scriptures of Judaism and Christianity. The Hebrew Bible, known by Christians as the Old Testament, contains two-thirds (39 books) of the Christian Bible. The other third (27 books) is known as the New Testament.

In most Harry Turtledove timelines, the Bible exists as it does in OTL. Various characters are depicted reading from the Bible, or quoting the Bible. The following timelines have a Bible that is different from our own.

Bible in Gunpowder Empire
Crosstime travelers who visited Agrippan Rome and studied its culture became interested in the differences between the Bible used by its Christians and the Bible of the home timeline. For example, in the Bible of Agrippan Rome there were only three Gospels, as the Book of John had never been written (and John the Apostle himself possibly never born); the Acts of the Apostles had the same name, but recorded quite different acts; and the Epistles of Paul included several addressed to churches in locations to which the Paul the Apostle in the home timeline never wrote. St. Jerome never lived in this alternate, and so others had translated the Bible into Latin. Such differences provided scholars in the Home timeline with material to embark on the new field of Comparative Crosstime Bible Studies.

Bible in In High Places
In an alternate where the Great Black Deaths had killed 4/5 of the population of Europe, the Bible had an additional Final Testament which described the life and acts of Henri, a Frenchman who proclaimed himself the Second Son of God. This version was unique to this alternate. There was no analog of Henri in any other timeline.

Bible in "Ils ne passeront pas"
The final book of the Christian Bible, known as the Book of Revelation, came to pass on the battlefields of Verdun in 1916. However, the weary soldiers who fought the battle were too numb to the horror of warfare to truly understand what was happening.