Old Testament Definition

noun
The Holy Scriptures of Judaism, the first of the two general divisions of the Christian Bible.
Webster's New World
The covenant of God with Israel as distinguished in Christianity from the dispensation of Jesus constituting the New Testament.
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pronoun

The first major part of the Christian Bible, covering events before the coming of Christ, corresponding roughly to the Jewish Tanakh. Usually subdivided into the categories of law, history, poetry (wisdom books) and prophecy.

The Old Testament says that eating shellfish is a sin.
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Origin of Old Testament

  • A retronym, by comparison with the New Testament.

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Old Testament Sentence Examples

  • The spirit in the Old Testament is a refined material thing that may come or be poured out on men.

  • The Pentateuch (or Hexateuch) was finally completed in its present form at some time before 400 B.C. The latest parts of the Old Testament are the books of Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah (c. 330 B.C.), Ecclesiastes and Esther (3rd century) and Daniel, composed either in the 3rd century or according to some views as late as the time of Antiochus Epiphanes (c. 168 B.C.).

  • But Jesus further maintains that this view of the law as a whole, and the interpretation of the Sabbath law which it involves, can be historically justified from the Old Testament.

  • Here you find articles in the encyclopedia about people from the Old Testament.

  • In 1870 he was appointed one of the first members of the committee for the revision of the English version of the Old Testament.

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