Ruth and Esther were named after women.
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In the entire bible there are 38 books named after people.
The name of the books in the bible are named after prophets, deciples,kings and people like Paul and his workers .
None. Very few women were even named in the bible, let alone allowed to contribute to it.
The naming being weird is an issue of perspective. Many of the names of the Biblical books are derived from the names of the characters in the Bible, whose names were in Ancient Hebrew, or from the early Greek or Latin translations of the books' names.
73 books in the Bible There are 67 books in the Protestant Bible.