Old Testament
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. The second division of Christian Bibles is the New Testament, written in the Koine Greek language. The Old Testament consists of many distinct books by various authors produced over a period of centuries. Christians traditionally divide the Old Testament into four sections: the first five books or Pentateuch (which corresponds to the Jewish Torah); the history books telling the history of the Israelites, from their conquest of Canaan to their defeat and exile in Babylon; the poetic and "Wisdom books" dealing, in various forms, with questions of good and evil in the world; and the books of the biblical prophets, warning of the consequences of turning away from God. The books that compose the Old Testament canon and their order and names differ between various branches of Christianity. The canons of the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches comprise up to 49 books; the Catholic canon comprises 46 books; and the most common Protestant canon comprises 39 books.There are 39 books common to essentially all Christian canons. They correspond to the 24 books of the Tanakh, with some differences of order, and there are some differences in text. The additional number reflects the splitting of several texts (Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra–Nehemiah, and the Twelve Minor Prophets) into separate books in Christian Bibles. The books that are part of the Christian Old Testament but that are not part of the Hebrew canon are sometimes described as deuterocanonical books. In general, Catholic and Orthodox churches include these books in the Old Testament. Most Protestant Bibles do not include the deuterocanonical books in their canon, but some versions of Anglican and Lutheran Bibles place such books in a separate section called apocrypha. These books are ultimately derived from the earlier Greek Septuagint collection of the Hebrew scriptures and are also Jewish in origin. Some are also contained in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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- Nabucco
- The Creation of Adam
- Bible Adventures
- The Creation of the Sun, Moon and Planets
- The Creation of Eve
- The Separation of the Earth and Waters
- Separation of Light from Darkness
- Nine scenes from Genesis
- The Sacrifice of Isaac
- Lot and his daughters
- Guimera's altarpiece
- Descent of Noah from Ararat
- Moses
- The Fall of Man
- Expulsion from the Paradise
- Samson Killing the Lion
- Abraham and three angels
- Landscape with Absalom Wounded by Joab's Spear
- The Flight of Loth
- The Gathering of the Manna in the Desert
- Saul and the Witch of Endor
- Abraham Preparing to Sacrifice Isaac
- The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
- The Flood
- Joshua Suspending the Motion of the Sun
- Hagar and the Angel
- Jephthah's Daughter
- The Triumph of David
- Job and His Children
- The Finding of Moses
- Lot and His Daughters
- The Burning Bush
- The Queen of Sheba in front of King Solomon
- The Sacrifice of Abraham
- Judith
- DreamWorks Bible universe
- A child's story of the Old Testament: in words of one syllable
- Das Blinzeln der Erdfrau
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