what is the difference between the first and second testament?
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The Old Testament is the original Hebrew Bible, the sacred scriptures of the Jewish faith, written at different times between about 1200 and 165 BC. The New Testament books were written by Christians in the first century AD.
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A primary source is the original document, a secondary source is the second hand account of the primary document.
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It is worth noting that God, in Genesis 1, and man, in Genesis 2, do seem to name different things. But, the point is that the first Genesis creation story emphasizes God as the name-giver, whereas the second Genesis creation story emphasizes the man as the name-giver.
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['Gospels. The first four books of the New Testament are the Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. ... ', 'Acts. The fifth book of the New Testament is Acts of the Apostles, or simply "Acts." Acts recounts the early history of Christianity. ... ', "Paul's Epistles and Hebrews. ... ", 'General Epistles. ... ', 'Revelation.']
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Christians believe that the texts were inspired by God. In Bible terminology, each of these texts is called a "book". The books are then divided into chapters. The Bible is also divided into two parts, the Old and New Testaments.
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The KJV is a more direct, word-for-word translation; the NIV more "dynamic equivalent" (idea-for-idea). The KJV used the best Hebrew and Greek manuscripts available at the time and chose a single version. ... This means that some verses found in the main KJV text, are only found in the footnotes of the NIV.
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Christians refer to the biblical books about Jesus as the New Testament, and to the canon of Hebrew books as the Old Testament. Judaism does not accept the retronymic labeling of its sacred texts as the "Old Testament", and some Jews refer to the New Testament as the Christian Testament or Christian Bible.
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The New King James Version (NKJV) reads at a 9th-grade reading level, while the New International Version (NIV reads at a 7th-grade level. The NKJV serves as a more literal translation of the Bible, following more closely to the original Hebrew and Greek texts.
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A difference is the order of the books.. A hebrew bible is as you know often referred to as a Tanach. Tanach stands for Torah(first 5 books), Neviim(prophets) Ketuvim(writings), and that also says something about the order, i.e. the order is first the first 5 books, then prophets, then writings.
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The Torah is the first part of the both Jewish Bible and Christian Old Testament. ... The Torah is the name used to describe the first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) - also referred to as the Pentateuch, or the Teachings of Moses.
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The Hebrew Bible is written by the Prophets. The Written Torah explains the Law. The Talmud is essentially a very long collection of literature that debates and finds meaning to the Law, to Jewish, customs, and to Jewish life.
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A study bible, like William Barclay's commentaries, go through the Bible virtually verse by verse with commentary as it goes. A reference Bible is more like an encyclopedia and goes topic by topic with reference to the rest of the Bible relative to each topic.
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The similarities between the formation of the Old and New Testament are that they both involve oral tradition and writing it down later on. The differences are that the Old Testament was written by the Chosen People (Jews) and the New Testament was written by Christians.
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In the New Testament we have “the testimony of Jesus Christ” (Revelation 1:2). In the Old Testament Law, the Ten Commandments are the Ten Words (Exodus 34:27,28). Whereas in the New Testament, Jesus is the Word (John 1:1). ... In the Old Testament Law, the sabbath is the rest (Exodus 20:8–11).
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There are several differences between the Quran and the Bible: In the Quran, Lot is described as a prophet, like his uncle Abraham. In Genesis (Genesis 19:1–29), Lot is not described as a prophet. ... In both the Bible and in the Quran, Abraham pleads for God to have mercy (Quran11:75; Gen.
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The Old Testament contains a vocabulary of 5,800 words. The New Testament focuses more on the life and teachings of Jesus and the Christian church. The Old Testament explains the history of the creation of the World, the exodus of Israelites, and the Ten Commandments given to Moses by God.
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As nouns the difference between gospel and bible is that gospel is the first section of the christian new testament scripture, comprising the books of , concerned with the life, death, resurrection, and teachings of jesus while bible is a comprehensive manual that describes something (eg, handyman's bible).