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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. I. The relationship of the OT to the NT. 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 as the promised Redeemer of God’s people. His apostles understood the entire ...
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.
In Christianity, the Old Testament is the name of the first part of the Bible which was completed before Jesus Christ was born. Scholars prefer the term Hebrew Bible . Tertullian was probably the first person to call these books the "Old Testament." He used the Latin name vetus testamentum in the 2nd century .
General Introduction to the Old Testament, Prehistory, The Major Moments in the History of Israel, From the Exile to the Coming of Jesus Christ, The Pentateuch, The Book of Genesis - Bible Gateway. New Catholic Bible (NCB) Bible Book List. Font Size.
The Old Testament, also known as the Hebrew Bible, is a sacred and foundational text for Judaism and Christianity. It is a collection of diverse literary genres, including historical narratives, poetry, prophecy, and law.
The Old Testament was Jesus’s only Bible, and it now stands as the initial 75% of Christian Scripture. The early church fathers designated it a Testament (= Latin testamentum, “covenant”) because they rightly viewed the whole as covenantal revelation.
