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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]
John Bright (1908–1995) was an American biblical scholar and the author of several books, including the influential A History of Israel (1959), currently in its fourth edition (2000). He was closely associated with the American school of biblical criticism pioneered by William F. Albright , which sought to marry archaeology to a defense of ...
The Heart of the Old Testament: A Survey of Key Theological Themes (1971, 1998) ISBN 0-8010-2172-3; The Genesis Debate: Persistent Questions about Creation and the Flood (1986) ISBN 0-8407-7517-2; Books of Samuel in the Expositor's Bible Commentary series (1992) ISBN 0-310-60893-7
A fragment of a Septuagint: A column of uncial book from 1 Esdras in the Codex Vaticanus c. 325–350 CE, the basis of Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton's Greek edition and English translation The contents page in a complete 80 book King James Bible, listing "The Books of the Old Testament", "The Books called Apocrypha", and "The Books of the ...
The Eastern Orthodox books of the Old Testament include the Roman Catholic deuterocanonical books, plus 3 Maccabees and 1 Esdras, while Baruch is divided from the Epistle of Jeremiah, making a total of 49 Old Testament books in contrast with the Protestant 39-book canon. [157]
Forms of the Old Testament Literature is a series of biblical commentaries published by Eerdmans. The first volume was Wisdom Literature:Job, Proverbs, Ruth, Canticles, Ecclesiastes, and Esther by Roland E. Murphy (1981). They were initially edited by Rolf Knierim and Gene M. Tucker; Marvin A. Sweeney took over from Tucker in 1997.
Temple and Worship in Biblical Israel: proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies. Vol. 422. London; New York: T & T Clark. ISBN 978-0-5670-4262-0. OCLC 58827982. ———, ed. (2008). In Search of Pre-Exilic Israel: proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar. Journal for the Study of ...
The historical books are a division of Christian Bibles, grouping 12 (or in some denominations more) books of the Old Testament [1] [page needed] that follow the Pentateuch, beginning with the Book of Joshua. [2]