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The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites.
Browse the Books of the Bible in order with introductions and summaries for both the Old and New Testament. Read all Bible books online in over 50 translations.
The Old Testament, a name coined by Melito of Sardis in the 2nd century ce, is longer than the Hebrew Bible, in part because Christian editors divided particular works into two sections but also because different Christian groups consider as canonical some texts not found in the Hebrew Bible.
The Christian Church regards the OT as authoritative Holy Scripture because its Founder and Savior so regarded it. Jesus taught His disciples that Moses, the OT prophets, and the Psalms all testified to Himself ( Luke 24:44) as the promised Redeemer of God’s people.
General Introduction to the Old Testament. The Old Testament Bible contains three main types of literature. A first, extensive group of books, after a short introduction on the origin of the world and the human race, is concerned with events in the history of the Hebrew people, from its distant beginnings down almost to the threshold of the New ...
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CHRONOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. The arrangement of OT events in time, including their dates and correlation with secular history. Outline. I. Principles of chronology. To date the events of the OT serves both to clarify their sequence in Biblical history and to emphasize their reality in time and space.
Old Testament. The Bible (from biblos, Greek for ‘book’) is the basis of two great religions, Judaism in the Old Testament and Christianity in the New Testament. In each case it brings together a group of documents to tell the story of the founders and early followers of the religion.
Old Testament. Theology and Key Dates. The Essential Components of the Old Testament Story. The Old Testament can be understood as an unfolding story with a number of basic components: (1) Monotheism. There is only one true God, who made and rules heaven and earth and all mankind.
Discover the books of the Old Testament, including resources for scholars and Bible study groups.
