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Browse the Books of the Bible in order with introductions and summaries for both the Old and New Testament. Read all Bible books online in over 50 translations.
The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites. [1]
The Christian Church regards the OT as authoritative Holy Scripture because its Founder and Savior so regarded it. Jesus taught His disciples that Moses, the OT prophets, and the Psalms all testified to Himself (Luke 24:44) as the promised Redeemer of God’s people.
Old Testament. The Bible (from biblos, Greek for ‘book’) is the basis of two great religions, Judaism in the Old Testament and Christianity in the New Testament. In each case it brings together a group of documents to tell the story of the founders and early followers of the religion.
The Old Testament, a name coined by Melito of Sardis in the 2nd century ce, is longer than the Hebrew Bible, in part because Christian editors divided particular works into two sections but also because different Christian groups consider as canonical some texts not found in the Hebrew Bible.
Old Testament. The word "testament", Hebrew berîth, Greek diatheke, primarily signifies the covenant which God entered into first with Abraham, then with the people of Israel. The Prophets had knowledge of a new covenant to which the one concluded on Mount Sinai should give away.
Read the Old Testament online for free. Choose a Book of the Old Testament in the Bible below to select a chapter and begin reading the verses of Scripture inside this foundational text of the Holy Bible.
Old Testament is the Christian name for the books of the Jewish scriptures that constitute the first half of the Christian Bible.
Church rules are called “canon law”; clerical vestments are sometimes called “canonics.”. The most widely used sense of the word refers to the canon of Scripture; i.e., the list of books regarded by the Church as authoritative and divine.
Here you can find quick, 3-minute guides to every book of the Old Testament. They’re listed in the order they show up in Protestant Bibles. Just click any book’s name, and get a high-level idea of what it’s about.