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Temples and Old Testament

Introduction

Old Testament, the name by Christian for the Hebrew Bible, refers to the first division of the Christian Bible. The concept of Old and New Testament came into existence after C.A.D 200. It helped to develop an improved understanding of the differences among the books of Mosaic covenant and the new covenant in Christ (Winter, Ralph & Hawthorne, pp.45). The writers of the New Testament call Old Testament as the Scripture.

The Christian Bible features two parts: the (Old-Testament) and (New Testament). The writing of the Old-Testament books goes back to over thousand years before Christ (BC) in Hebrew, whilst that of the New Testament written in Greek goes back to 1st century AD. In the Old-Testament books, there is canonical and non canonical. The main difference between them is that the canonical books are older, written in the XV not included in the canon, the collection of sacred books, written later, in the IV - I cc. The Old-Testament canon developed gradually. The first collector of the sacred books together believes Ezra (5th century BC) (Richards, 13). Old-Testament canon has acquired the kind that exists in Modern Hebrew, the so-called masoretskoy, the Bible.

Discussion

The Old-Testament in the Christian custom refers to the New Testament. Among the Jews, the Bible commonly implies the Kitwe ha-Kodesh ("Holy Scriptures") or, in abbreviated form, the Tanach - the first letters of the names of three principal parts of the Hebrew Bible: Torah (Pentateuch), Nevi'im (Prophets, in turn subdivided into Nevi'im Rishonim, etc. is, the earlier prophets, and Nevi'im Aharoni, i.e. later Prophets) and Ketuvim (Writings or hagiographers). The Old-Testament of the Catholic and Orthodox Bible besides the canonical books contain 11 more books that are missing in the Hebrew Bible, translated from Greek. The Old-Testament of the Protestant Bible has 39 books and meets the canon of the Hebrew Bible.

The outlook on the universe which obtains today is vastly grander, more accurate, and more thrilling than the outlook of a century ago. If the sixteenth century chronicled a renaissance of ancient culture the nineteenth century introduced a new birth of time which with keen-eyed intellect has set itself to seek truth alone and be satisfied with nothing less, whatever long-lived theories have to be discarded. That is the reason it has been in all departments of physical science and not less has it been in Bible study. Today achievement of this research is available. One understands that the New Testament writings are of much greater true value than those of the Old Testament. It is the reason that they are more nearly contemporaneous with the events recorded than is often the case with those of the Old Testament.

It is in connection with the Old Testament Scriptures that intelligence, straightforward honesty, and courage especially needed in order to present their teaching liberal from grotesque and fallacious interpretations (Hayford, pp.102). At the outset, higher criticism is legitimate and reasonable and cannot fail to make a ...