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Writing began when Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, and was completed about 500 years before the birth of Jesus, with a cycle of about 65,438+0,000 years. Some scholars believe that it was written from the prison period of Babylon to the first century BC, during which it was written for about 240 years. Later, it was fully accepted by Christianity as the first part of the Bible, and so were many contents of the Islamic Koran.
The Old Testament recognized by different Christian factions is slightly different, and the Catholic version recognizes 46 volumes; The orthodox version recognizes 50 volumes; The Protestant version recognizes 39 volumes. ?
The Old Testament Bible is usually divided into four parts: the Five Scriptures of Moses (also known as the Torah Book), the History Book, the Poetry Wisdom Book and the Prophet Book. All the Old Testament bibles were written and compiled into books before the birth of Jesus. From the perspective of Christianity, this is the same as the New Testament written after the birth of Jesus.
The main line of its content is to tell the relationship between God and his people Hebrews (Jews) and their stories. Later, two of the three major religions in the world, Christianity and Islam, were born directly from Judaism. With the spread of these two religions, the Old Testament has been translated into the languages of all countries in the world, which has had a far-reaching impact on world politics, economy, history and culture.
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The enlightenment classic literature of Christianity is consistent with the Hebrew Bible in content, but the arrangement is different. It mainly includes the Five Books of Moses, historical books, books of poetry and wisdom, books of great prophets, books of little prophets and so on.
In the history of world civilization, Judaism has a great influence on the formation of Christianity which rose around the year A.D. and Islam which appeared in Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century A.D. ... Judaism has a far-reaching influence on Christianity, especially in morality and history, which is the main part of Christianity. Christianity accepted the Jewish classics intact and incorporated them into the Bible.
The Bible consists of two parts: the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Old Testament is a classic of Judaism, that is, the Covenant between God and the Jews; The New Testament means that God has made a new contract with believers through Jesus. Jesus, the savior of Christianity, is a Jew. In a sense, Christianity is a development form of Judaism.
In the Arabian Peninsula before the 7th century, Jews and Christians were quite popular. They both believed in and worshipped a dominant and supreme god. Their teachings and classics have a great influence on Islam, which is clearly reflected in the Islamic classic Koran. Islam, Christianity and Buddhism are the three major religions in the world.
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