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 THE OLD
TESTAMENT
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
01 TEXTUAL HISTORY
02
When was it
written? Who wrote
it? And how reliable
is it as an historical
record?
THE OLD TESTAMENTS
The Old Testament is the
first section of the Bible,
covering the creation of
Earth through Noah and
the flood, Moses and
more, finishing with the
Jews being expelled
to Babylon.
 BIBLE
The holy scripture
of the Christian
religion.
“And God said, Let there be light,
and there was light. God saw that
the light was good, and He
separated the light from the
darkness.”

–Book of Genesis
INTRODUCTION
The Bible is the holy
scripture of the Christian
religion, purporting to tell
the history of the Earth
from its earliest creation to
the spread of Christianity
in the first century A.D.
 TEXTUAL HISTORY
IN THE HOLY BIBLE

When was it
written? Who
wrote it? And how
reliable is it as an
historical record?
The Bible is the
sacred book that
contains the word
of God.
The Bible is not just one book, but
an entire library, with stories,
songs, poetry, letters and history,
as well as literature that might
more obviously qualify as
'religious'.

The Christian Bible has two

sections, the Old Testament and
the New Testament.
 OLD
TESTAMENT
The Old Testament is
the original Hebrew
Bible, the sacred
scriptures of the Jewish
faith, written at
different times between
about 1200 and 165 BC.
 NEW
TESTAMENT

The New Testament

books were written
by Christians in the
first century AD.
 2,500
are the languages in which we can read the
Holy Bible
 HEBREW
The Jewish Bible, the Old
Testament, was originally
written almost entirely in
Hebrew, with a few
short elements in
Aramaic.
 PRINCIPLES OF THE BIBLE
GOD
There is one God, eternally
existing in three persons –
Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit.
Salvation
Salvation comes through
God’s grace and is received
personally by faith in Jesus
Christ.
Man
God created man to
have fellowship with
Him, but man chose
to go his own way.
Character
These include: the Lordship of Christ over
all our life and thoughts; the responsibility to
love God with our whole being and to love
our neighbor as ourselves; the responsibility
to pursue righteousness and practice justice
and mercy to everyone; and participation in
the worship and activities of the church,
which forms a necessary context for
Christian living.
 39
Are the books of the Old Testament

1,189
Are the chapters of the Holy Bible

31,173
Verses in all books
 OLD TESTAMENT
The Old Testament is the first section of
the Bible, covering the creation of
Earth through Noah and the flood,
Moses and more, finishing with the
Jews being expelled to Babylon.
 Old Testament
The Hebrew Bible has 39 books, written over a long period of
time, and is the literary archive of the ancient nation of Israel.

A B C
The Law The Prophets The Writings
 THE LAW
The first five books, The Hebrew word for Law
('Torah') means 'guidance' or
Genesis to 'instruction', and that could
include stories offering
Deuteronomy. everyday examples of how
people were meant to live as
well as legal requirements.

They are not 'law' in

These books were later
a modern Western called the 'Pentateuch',
sense. and tradition
attributed them
to Moses.
Torah or Five Books of Moses
BOOK ENGLISH NAME SYNOPSIS

Be-reshit Genesis Is the book of origins - of the beginning

of life, and of ruin through sin.

Shemot Exodus Is the book of origins - of the beginning

of life, and of ruin through sin.

Va-yikra Leviticus Is the book of worship and communion,

the proper exercise of the redeemed.

Be-midbar Numbers Speaks of the experiences of a pilgrim

people, the redeemed passing through a
hostile scene to a promised inheritance.

Devarim Deutoronomy Retrospective and prospective, is a book

of instruction for the redeemed.
 THE PROPHETS
The Prophets is the largest section
of the Hebrew Bible and has two
parts ('former prophets' and
'latter prophets').
The books of 'latter prophets'
preserve sayings and stories of
religious and political activists
('prophets') who served as the
spiritual conscience of the nation
throughout its history, reminding
people of the social values that
would reflect the character of God.
The 'former prophets'
consist of Joshua,
Judges, 1-2 Samuel, 1-2
Kings
They are history books, but what
makes them also 'prophets' is that
they not only record information,
they interpret it, explaining its
significance in relation to other
events in the history of Israel, and of
the wider world of their day.
 THE WRITINGS
Psalms (songs, The 'five scrolls' ('Megiloth') which
prayers and were grouped together because each
had associations with a particular
liturgies for religious festival: Ruth (the Jewish
worship), Proverbs Feast of Weeks, also called Shavuot),
(sayings of Song of Solomon (Passover),
Ecclesiastes (Tabernacles),
homespun wisdom) Lamentations (Destruction of
Jerusalem), and Esther (Purim).

Job (a drama This section also includes the last

that explores books of the Hebrew Bible to be
written:Ezra, Nehemiah, and 1-2
the nature of Chronicles (all history books), and
suffering) Daniel (visions of a better world).
 Old Testament Timeline

Creation The Fall Patriarchs

God created The Fall of Adam and Eve and The main people
everything in six sin and death entering into surrounding Abraham
days and rested on the world. God made a and the Hebrews
covering for them indicating (Genesis 12-50)
the seventh day to that it was only through the were: Abraham,
establish the blood of a substitute that they Isaac, Jacob, and
Sabbath day. could approach God. Joseph.
 Old Testament Timeline

Exodus Babylon
The 10 Plagues and the Kings and Babylon is featured in the story
of The Tower of Babel and the
Exodus was the period
of time when Moses and
Temple Hebrews claimed the city was
Aaron came into the The main people during named for the confusion which
the period of the Kings ensued after God caused the
house of Pharaoh and
(Samuel and 1 Kings) people to begin speaking in
demanded to let the different languages so they would
people of Israel go. were: Samuel, Saul,
not be able to complete their
David, Solomon.
great tower to the heavens (the
Hebrew
word bavel means 'confusion').