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Old Testament

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Old Testament Christian name for the Hebrew Bible, which serves as the first division of the Christian Bible (see New Testament ). The designations "Old" and "New" seem to have been adopted after c.AD 200 to distinguish the books of the Mosaic covenant and those of the "new" covenant in Christ. New Testament writers, however, simply call the Old Testament the "Scriptures." The Books of the Old Testament Among contemporary Christians, the Roman Catholic Church recognizes as deuterocanonical several books that are consigned to the Old Testament Apocrypha by most... Read more

Testament, Old and New
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Testament, Old and New. See OLD TESTAMENT and NEW TESTAMENT . Read more

prophets (Old Testament)
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church prophets (Old Testament). See PROPHECY . Read more

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