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The New Testament Vs. The Hebrew Bible

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“The New Testament contains several different genres (categories) of literature, although it has considerably less variety than the Hebrew Bible. Early Christians editors arranged the contents not in chronological order according to dates of compositions, but according to the documents’ literary classification, beginning with the Gospels and ending with the Book of Revelation” (Harris, 2014).
Gospels - the first literary form consists of the first four books of the New Testaments which is Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The Gospels are also considered as the “good news” and given the account of the birth of Jesus, His ministry, death and resurrection.
Church History - found in the book of Acts (the second literary form and also known as the
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