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The 17th book of the Old Testament, is the book of Esther

It relates the story of a Hebrew woman in Persia, born as Hadassah but known as Esther, who becomes queen of Persia and thwarts a genocide of her people.

The book's theme is the reversal of destiny through a sudden and unexpected turn of events: the Jews seem destined to be destroyed, but instead are saved. In literary criticism such a reversal is termed "peripety", and while on one level its use in Esther is simply a literary or aesthetic device, on another it is structural to the author's theme, suggesting that the power of God is at work behind human events.

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The 17th book of the New Testament, is the book of Titus

Paul commissions Titus to show how the good news of Jesus and the power of the Spirit can transform Cretan culture from within. The Cretans society being deceitful, and having false teachers who are rebellious, empty talkers who claim to teach the law "without understanding"and full of deceivers who deliberately lead the faithful astray.