New Testament. Old Testament. The Old Testament is the first section of the Christian Bible, based primarily upon the Hebrew Bible, a collection of religious writings by ancient Israelites.
It is the counterpart to the New Testament, the Christian Bible's second section. The Old Testament canon varies between Christian denominations; Protestants accept only the books found in the canon of the Hebrew Bible, dividing them into 39 books, while Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox churches accept somewhat larger collections of writings. The Old Testament consists of many distinct books written, compiled, and edited by various authors[3] over a period of centuries. It is not entirely clear at what point the parameters of the Hebrew Bible, the basis for the Christian Old Testament, were fixed. Content[edit] The Old Testament contains 39 (Protestant) or 46 (Catholic) or more (Orthodox and other) books, divided, very broadly, into the Pentateuch (Torah), the historical books, the "wisdom" books and the prophets.
Book of Job. The Book of Job (/ˈdʒoʊb/; Hebrew: אִיוֹב Iyov) is one of the Writings (Ketuvim) of the Hebrew Bible, and the first poetic book in the Christian Old Testament.
Addressing the theme of God's justice in the face of human suffering—or more simply, "Why do the righteous suffer? "—it is a rich theological work, setting out a variety of perspectives. It has been widely and often extravagantly praised for its literary qualities, with Alfred, Lord Tennyson calling it "the greatest poem of ancient and modern times".
Structure[edit] Jewish scroll of the Book of Job The Book of Job consists of a prose prologue and epilogue narrative framing poetic dialogues and monologues. 1. 2. First cycle Eliphaz (chapters 4-5) and Job's response (chapters 6-7) Bildad (8) and Job (9-10) Zophar (11) and Job (12-14) Second cycle Eliphaz (15) and Job (16-17) Bildad (18) and Job (19) Zophar (20) and Job (21) Third cycle Eliphaz (22) and Job (23-24) Bildad (25) and Job (26-27); 3. 4. 5. Contents[edit] Two speeches by God[edit] Hebrew Bible. 11th-century manuscript of the Hebrew Bible with Aramaic Targum The Hebrew Bible (also Hebrew Scriptures, Jewish Bible (Judaica Bible); Latin: Biblia Hebraica) is a term used by biblical scholars to refer to the Tanakh (Hebrew: תנ"ך), the canonical collection of Jewish texts, which is the common textual source of the several canonical editions of the Christian Old Testament. These texts are composed mainly in Biblical Hebrew, with some passages in Biblical Aramaic (in the books of Daniel, Ezra and a few others).
The content, to which the Protestant Old Testament closely corresponds, does not act as source to the deuterocanonical portions of the Roman Catholic, nor to the Anagignoskomena portions of the Eastern Orthodox Old Testaments. The term does not comment upon the naming, numbering or ordering of books, which varies with later Christian biblical canons.