OLD-TESTAMENT “ROOTS OF THEOLOGY”

Old-Testament “Roots of Theology”

Old-Testament “Roots of Theology”

Introduction

The Old-Testament

Genesis: God begins his work on earth

Exodus: God redeems his people Salvador

Leviticus: Holy establishing the true worship.

Numbers: God disciplines his people with love

Deuteronomy: is the king loves his people

Joshua: God keeps his promise of land.

Judges: God tests his people

Ruth: God outlines redemption

1 and 2 Samuel: God choose the king

1 and 2 Kings: God reigns over his nation

1 and 2 Chronicles: God preserves the real seed

Ezra: is restored to its people

Nehemiah: God rebuild his city

Esther: God protects his people

Job: God tests his servant

Psalms: God delights in worship

Proverbs: God teaches true wisdom

Ecclesiastes: God reveals our finitude

Songs: God's praises human love

Isaiah: God shows his great salvation

Jeremiah: God reveals his heart

Lamentations: God weeps

Ezekiel: God reveals hope

Daniel: God protects his servants

Hosea: God loves the sinner

Joel: God announces the day

Amos: God shows his displeasure

Obadiah: God judges his enemies

Jonah: Jonah proclaims a coming judgment upon Nineveh's people. But they repented and judgment was spared.

Micah: God is incomparable

Nahum: God comes to his people

Habakkuk, God lists the nations

Zephaniah: God shelter to its people

Haggai: God restores the worship

Zechariah: God remembers

Malachi: God sent his messenger

Discussion

The Christian Bible is divided in to two parts: the (Old-Testament) and (New Testament). Old-Testament books were written for over a thousand years before Christ (BC) in Hebrew, New Testament written in Greek in the I 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 was created gradually. The first collector of the sacred books together believes Ezra (5th century BC). Old-Testament canon has acquired the kind that exists in modern Hebrew, the so-called masoretskoy, the Bible.

The Old-Testament in the Christian tradition refers to the New Testament. Among the Jews, the Bible is commonly referred to 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). Torah: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy Early Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel (1 and 2), Kings (1 and 2) the later Prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and the twelve minor prophets of Scripture: Psalms, Proverbs, Job , Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles 1 and 2. If the book minor prophets (Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi), the books of Ezra and Nehemiah, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles consider as separate books, the total number of Old-Testament books to reach 39. 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 ...