Old and New Testament: A Brief Overview

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The Christian biblical canon’s first division is known as the Old Testament. Hebrew
Bible also called as Tanakh is a collection of twenty-four books as a part of Old Testament. The
group of religious and old time writings of Hebrew by Israelites is inclusive in Tanakh.
Old Testament comprises of varied books given by a number of writers in the past
centuries. As per the tradition the old testament is divided into four parts by the Christians. These
four sections are law books, historical books and poetic books (Hildebrandt, 2019). Talking
about law books there are five law books. These books have been written up by the Moses. The
names of first two books are Genesis and Exodus. Further books of law are Leviticus, Numbers
and Deuteronomy. These books are supposed to be written by Mosses as per the believes of the
ancient people. The books of history are the records of the past events of the Israelites from the
duration they entered Canaan, and their settlement at Canaan until the Babylonian exile. These
books are Joshua, Judges, Ruth, two part of Samuel, two books of Kings, two parts of
Chronicles. Further the other books namely are called as Esther, Ezra and Nehemiah. The poetic
publications are comprising of the words of wisdom. The books are available with the names
Psalms and Job. In addition to these two, volumes namely, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, Songs of
Songs and Prophetic books are also poetic opus. Israelites prophecies are contained in poetic
books.
The old testament consistently depicts the god as the creator of the world. The god as per
the interpretation the Old Testament have not been represented as the only god that exists. The
God is instead represented as the only figure for the Israelite whom the Israel worships
(McComiskey, 2019). Almighty is the one true God. Bible has been interpreted by the Jews and
the Christians always as a thought to depict the oneness of powerful God.
The special relationship between the God and the people selected by him along with the
instructions for proselytes have been described through the old testament. The connection that
exists for Almighty with his selected people in expressed in the biblical covenant (Urnov, 2018).
Covenant is considered as a kind of contract. The law codes in the opuses of old testament are
the terms of this contract. The terms of the relationship between God and his people are Israel
oath for having faith in the God and the God also promise to Israel to be their special saver and
who will always support them.