The books of the Old Testament, showing their positions in both the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible, shown with their names in Hebrew ) and Christian Bibles.

Together with the Peshitta and Codex Alexandrinus, these are the earliest extant Christian Bibles.

The Old Testament is a Christian term for a collection of religious writings of ancient Israel that form the major and first section of Christian Bibles, in contrast to the Christian New Testament which deals explicitly with the 1st century Christianity.

The Septuagint order for the Old Testament is evident in the earliest Christian Bibles ( 4th century ).

Though different Christian denominations have slightly different versions of the Old Testament in their Bibles, the Torah as the " Five Books of Moses " ( or " the Mosaic Law ") is common among them all.

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According to the Masoretic Text, this period consists of 1, 656 years, and this dating is also followed by Western Christian Bibles derived from the Latin Vulgate.

Together with the Peshitta, these are the earliest extant Christian Bibles.

However in many Christian Orthodox Bibles they are ordered according to the Septuagint thus:

In the Septuagint and other Christian Bibles derived from it, Eber is called Heber and his father is called Sala.

Drinking is documented in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, in art history, in Greek literature as old as Homer, and in Confucius ’ s Analects.

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In the Septuagint and some Christian Bibles derived from it, Peleg is called Phaleg and his father is called Heber.

The Old English poem is one of many retellings of the Holofernes-Judith tale as it was found in the Book of Judith, still present in the Catholic and Orthodox Christian Bibles.

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Some chapter divisions also occur in different places, e. g. in Hebrew Bibles is numbered as in Christian translations.

In all Christian canons of the Old Testament ( Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant ), it is divided into two parts, 1 & 2 Chronicles — immediately following 1 & 2 Samuel and 1 & 2 Kings — as a summary of them with minor details sometimes added.

The division of Chronicles and its place in the Christian canons are based upon the division of books in the ancient Greek Septuagint.

These are during 853 – 841 BC when Jerusalem was invaded by Philistines and Arabs during the reign of Jehoram ( recorded in 2 Kings 8: 20-22 and 2 Chronicles 21: 8-20 in the Christian Old Testament ) and 605 – 586 BC when Jerusalem was attacked by King Nebuchadnezzer of Babylon, which led to the Babylonian exile of Israel ( recorded in Psalm 137 ).

The following table shows the arrangement of the holy books in the Jewish Bible and the Old Testament ( Jewish bibles count 24 books, as shown here, but Christian bibles divide Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah and the Minor Prophets, bringing the total to 39 ; books additional to the Hebrew Bible in italics ):

Most versions of the Christian Old Testament count Samuel, Kings, Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah as two books each, and the " Twelve Prophets " ( or the minor prophets ) as 12 books, giving rise to a count of 39 books for the Old Testament.

** C. S. Lewis, Irish-born British critic, novelist ( The Chronicles of Narnia ) and Christian apologist ( b. 1898 )

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( In citations by chapter and verse numbers, however, the Hebrew equivalents of " Nehemiah ", " I Chronicles " and " II Chronicles " are used, as the system of chapter division was imported from Christian usage.

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Cerinthus is featured in John's Story: The Last Eyewitness, part of Christian writer Tim LaHaye's The Jesus Chronicles.

* A brief history of Chronicles by E. Christian Kopff

Gadahn's paternal grandmother, Agnes Branch, a Christian, was an editor for The Christian Family Chronicles ( genealogical publication for people with the surname " Christian ").

" Subsequently, his Chronicles of Narnia is regarded as mythopoeia, with storylines referencing that Christian mythology, namely the narrative of a great king who is sacrificed to save his people and is resurrected.

* The Chronicles of the Kings of Israel ( lost / missing ) and Chronicles of the Kings of Judah (" 2 Chronicles " in the Christian Old Testament or " Divrei Hayamim II " in the Hebrew Tanakh ) are mentioned in the Books of Kings ( 1 Kings 14: 19, 14: 29 ).

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* Christian Miscellany 1 ( 1792 ): 209 – 212.

1 and 2 Samuel were originally ( and still is in some Jewish bibles ) a single book, but the first Greek translation, produced in the centuries immediately before Christ, divided it into two ; this was adopted by the Latin translation used in the early Christian church of the West, and finally introduced into Jewish bibles around the early 16th century CE.

In the Christian canon the Book of Ruth is placed between Judges and 1 Samuel.

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Dr. Stephen Barrett has reported that since 1971, the number of practitioners and teachers in the United States listed in the Christian Science Journal has fallen from nearly 5, 000 to just over 300 and the number of churches in the United States has fallen from about 1, 800 to about 900.

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On June 1, 2006, USA Today reported that Rockies management, including manager Clint Hurdle, had instituted an explicitly Christian code of conduct for the team's players, banning men's magazines ( such as Maxim and Playboy ) and sexually explicit music from the team's clubhouse.

Various estimates of the population have been taken since ; in 1956 it was estimated a population of 1, 411, 416, with 54 % Christian and 44 % Muslim.

The Apostle John devoted his first Epistle to countering early proto-gnostic cults that had arisen in the first century, all claiming to be " Christian " ( 1 Jn.

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Some Protestant Christian denominations prohibit the drinking of alcohol based upon Biblical passages which condemn drunkenness ( such as Proverbs 23: 21, Isaiah 28: 1, Habakkuk 2: 15 ), but others allow moderate use of alcohol.

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Chapter 4 then concludes with a summary of the topics discussed and with the benediction, followed by 5 ; 6: 1 – 10 teaching about the right use of their Christian freedom.

The First Epistle to the Thessalonians, usually referred to simply as First Thessalonians and often written 1 Thessalonians, is a book from the New Testament of the Christian Bible.

Paul then wrote this letter to the Corinthians, urging uniformity of belief (" that ye all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you ", 1: 10 ) and expounding Christian doctrine.

Graham Stanton rejects Petrine authorship because 1 Peter was most likely written during the reign of Domitian in AD 81, which is when he believes widespread Christian persecution began, which is long after the death of Peter.

The social makeup of the addressees of 1 Peter is debatable because some scholars interpret “ strangers ” ( 1: 1 ) as Christians longing for their home in heaven, some interpret it as literal “ strangers ”, or as an Old Testament adaptation applied to Christian believers.