The Old Testament

The Old Testament is the largest part of the bible nestled behind the leather binding in the front of the book. Unlike most books, told from one-person or even two this is comprised of multiple, some stories even having two different versions in another point of view; over time it has become a large collection of ancient texts written and re-written by different authors and editors over the many years. The stories show the ancient Israelites, they show the laws, and rituals, which make up their religion and the small embers, which will one day, turn to a flame that is Christianity. The Jewish people view these stories as collected in what they call the Torah, is the collection for what makes up their history and the promise that God gave to them, as well as their laws and what they worship today. For the Christians the Old Testament is still seen as sacred, but most place a stronger importance to the New Testament.

The first property to be discussed is a Mountain Property purchased by Martin 31 years ago. Martin bought this property with a group of friends as joint tenants with a right of survivorship. In most states, a joint tenant with the right of survivorship states that each owner of the property has equal shares and no one person can have more than the other. It also states that each of the owners holds their portions of the property until a time in which one of the owner’s dies. At his point, the property is redistributed equally to the remaining owners. This process proceeds until only one owner is alive, at which time he or she becomes the sole owner, and in this case that would be Martin since he is the sole surviving owner of the property in question. However, when Peter, one of the original joint

The first case shows that Martin had bought the mountain property 31 years ago as the joint tenant with his friends. The friends of Martin is passed away already and he had not been in the property for more than 20 years. The actions taken by Martin clearly indicates that he was not careful about the property and other people used it for their own purpose. The law shows that “Placing property in joint tenancy may disinherit children or others since property held in joint tenancy passes to the survivor regardless of what the deceased joint tenant's Will or Trust directs and regardless of whom the decedent's heirs are under law. Usually it is a person’s intent to leave their property to their spouse and then to their children.

As an individual who finds great personal value in the Scriptures, Brettler provides permission to look at passages from different angles and perspectives. Consequently, a conclusion must be made that one can not put ancient literature into a neat and tidy “this is what the Bible is saying so it must be true” box. There are many parts of the Hebrew Bible that are strange to read. If many were lived out today, it would ostracize people, and to be blunt, land someone in prison. However, all of these passages are included in this great book, the Hebrew Bible, for a reason. They were important to the Jewish culture whom they were written for. Why were they important to the Jewish culture in the Ancient Near East World? Can they bring value to us today? Is it possible to accurately declare that everything in the Hebrew Bible can be exegetically “figured out”, with no unanswered questions, or unresolved mysteries? Of course not. By asking questions, challenging preconceived notions, and examining whether passages in the Hebrew Bible are mythological or fact, one is not agreeing to a predetermined diminishment of personal spiritual and faith principles derived from the Scriptures.

There are many great leaders in the Old Testament of the Bible. However, there are some that deserve far more respect than others, and there are others that do not even have the great appearance or qualifications of a leader. Just as there are leaders such as these, a person that is related to both of these types of leaders is our Savior, Jesus Christ. The Old Testament leaders of the Bible that deserve more respect or do not have the greatest appearances or qualifications of a leader are easily compared and contrasted to Jesus 's life and ministry.

Prophet! What is a prophet exactly? A prophet in the Old Testament was a person from various backgrounds, who God used to communicate his message to the world. Going to church as a child I always heard that in the Old Testament all prophets were men. That isn’t exactly the case. Even though a majority of them were men, there were also women that were also prophets. The term for a female prophet is Prophetesses. God gave some women approval to speak to his people, but just like men they used their authority for good but also some evil. Five women were mentioned in the Old Testament as being Prophetesses. Mariam, Deborah, Huldah, Noadiah, and Isaiah’s wife. The Bible tells a story about each of these women.

Canon is a term used frequently throughout the first chapter which is defined by the textbook as a normative list of authoritative texts that function as scripture. The Hebrew Bible is arranged into three parts which are named Law or Torah, Prophets or Nevi’im, and writings or Ketuvim. The Hebrew Bible in essence is the same as the Christian Old Testament except in a Jewish perspective. The Old Testament in its simplest definition is the first main division of the Christian Bible but in actuality it is much more than that and is comprised of 39 books. Before the invention of the printing press scribes copied manuscripts which were handwritten. Scripture refers to writing from a sacred text.

“In the beginning, God created the Heauen, and the Earth. And the earth was without forme, and voyd, and darknesse was vpon the face of the deepe: and the spirit of God mooued vpon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.” (Genesis 1-3) So begins the first book of the Christian Old Testament, the Hebrew Torah, one of the most recognizable texts in history. At least, the text begins the King James Bible in 1611, itself arguably the most influential version or translation of the Bible today. But this is not the original text. Surprisingly, the original scripture was not written in Early Modern English in the 17th century in the British Isles, but in Hebrew and possibly Aramaic, while the New Testament was written in Koine Greek. In fact, the original Hebrew looked nothing like our Latin script of today. Hebrew is a Semitic language, and therefore an Afroasiatic one, while English is Indo-European, and you would be hard pressed to find someone who believes that the two fall into a larger, connected language family besides some Indian nationalists who believe that all languages are derived from Sanskrit, or Tamil. And although there is much borrowing and exchanging of roots and words, modern English speakers have no mutual intelligibility with Hebrew. As Ralph Waldo Emerson famously said in his Letters and Social Aims, “Language is a city to the building of which every human has brought a stone.” It’s a nice concept, and it would be hard

“ Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.” Rom 5: 20-21, what a great news; whoever believes in Him is free indeed! Our salvation does not rely on us through works, but it is the free gift God to whoever believes in His son. Paul discusses the Mosaic Law, he explains that the Mosaic Law in itself is right and without flaws, it is our incapacity to uphold the law that creates our dilemma. Anyway, the

The Book of Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible, and the third of five books of the Torah (or Pentateuch), and the third book of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. Moses was the author of the Book of Leviticus. Leviticus contains the law and commandments that God gave to his newly sanctified people to obey as their part of their covenant relationship. (Reading the Old Testament, Page 69-70)

The names “Old Testament” and “New Testament” are inherently theological in nature. Because there is a difference distinctly built into giving them different notations, it implies that there are differences between each the Old Testament and the New Testament, whether it is subtle in nature or obvious in nature. To Christians, the difference means that the Old Testament contains dealings between God and the world and even some of the rules made are made irrelevant by the interactions of Christ Jesus with the world. One of the differences between the New Testament and the Old Testament is the way each of the Testaments describe God and God’s nature. The Old Testament describes an angry God, one who only created the world and was obsessed with laws and rules. The New Testament describes a loving God who redeemed the world. The different ways the Old Testament and New Testament describe God and his nature are very much influenced by their perspective of God. By the rules, actions, and laws God made, the early writers of the Old Testament made their judgements about God and wrote those perspectives into the books of the Old Testament. The writers of the Old Testament did the best they could with the information they had and got some things about God right, but also got things wrong. The writers of the New Testament and therefore, Christian believers understand God better.

The Old Testament, the Torah has beautiful chronological order and well organized as well that makes the readers to read it easily because it is streamline and in order moves from story to story. In this I will discuss all the topics of the unit one that we have studies in the class till date regarding moral, main themes and social ethics. Moreover, I will compare some of the famous stories form the Holy Quran and the Old Testament.

Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; [3] Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds: [4] That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak. [6] Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do. And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.

The first 39 books of the larger work called the Bible, is called the Old Testament. The Bible itself is arguably the best selling and most read book of all time, yet it’s well known to be quite challenging to read through and understand. The Old Testament portion of the Bible, notably the most difficult portion of the Bible for most to study and follow, yields 39 books from multiple authors, and spans over 4000 years of crucial world and church history. If that were not enough to take on, the Old Testament comes our way through multiple styles of authorship and formats, including but not limited to, books of history, law, proverbs, ethics,