Corporate election draws support from a similar concept of corporate election found in the Old Testament and Jewish law.

A table comparing the canons of some of these traditions appears below, comparing the Jewish Bible with the Christian Old Testament and New Testament.

The Book of Esther is a book in the Ketuvim (" writings "), the third section of the Jewish Tanakh ( the Hebrew Bible ) and is part of the Christian Old Testament.

While animal sacrifice was part of the practice of ancient Judaism, the Tanakh ( Old Testament ) and Jewish teaching portray human sacrifice as one of the evils that separated the pagans of Canaan from the Hebrews (, ).

The Torah ( Jewish Law ), also known as the Pentateuch ( the first five books of the Christian Old Testament ), lays down the death penalty for murder, kidnapping, magic, violation of the Sabbath, blasphemy, and a wide range of sexual crimes, although evidence suggests that actual executions were rare.

Some Christian denominations ( such as Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox ), include a number of books that are not in the Hebrew Bible ( the biblical apocrypha or deuterocanonical books or Anagignoskomena, see Development of the Old Testament canon ) in their biblical canon that are not in today's Jewish canon, although they were included in the Septuagint.

Christadelphians believe that Jesus is the promised Jewish Messiah, in whom the prophecies and promises of the Old Testament find their fulfilment.

Outside of the Roman Catholic Church, the term deuterocanonical is sometimes used, by way of analogy, to describe books that Eastern Orthodoxy, and Oriental Orthodoxy included in the Old Testament that are not part of the Jewish Tanakh, nor the Protestant Old Testament.

Where the Diatessaron records Gospel quotations from the Jewish Scriptures, the text appears to agree with that found in the Syriac Peshitta Old Testament rather than that found in the Greek Septuagint — as used by the original Gospel authors.

It seems likely that its audience was largely gentile rather than Jewish, since it contains few Old Testament quotations or distinctly Jewish forms of expression.

Luke presupposes a knowledge of the Old Testament and Jewish history ( 1: 7 ; 4: 38 ; 9: 9-10 & 9: 28-36 ).

He is one of the Twelve Prophets of the Jewish Hebrew Bible, also known as the Minor Prophets of the Christian Old Testament.

In opposition to the school of Ferdinand Christian Baur, who considered him a Jewish Christian, Albrecht Ritschl has pointed out that it was precisely because he was a Gentile Christian that he did not fully understand the Old Testament foundation of Paul's teaching, and explained in this way the modified character of his Paulinism and his legal mode of thought.

The faith incorporates many Old Testament ideas into its theology, and the beliefs of Mormons sometimes parallel those of Judaism and certain elements of Jewish culture.

Of singular importance is the extensive use of and interaction with the Jewish Bible and what would become the Christian Old Testament.

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 ):

Heathen is from Old English hæðen " not Christian or Jewish " ( c. f.

In the Old Testament, all male converts to Judaism, male infants born to Jewish parents, and male servants were circumcised as ceremony of initiation into the Jewish community.

In the Torah, the Jewish scriptures and the Old Testament of the Bible, it was the promise of God to provide an eternal liberating king in the line of King David of Bethlehem.

There is also some disagreement among Christians in regard to what, precisely, is superseded: the Old Covenant, or the Jewish people themselves.

# The Jewish Bible ( the so-called " Old Testament ") repeatedly portrays the opaqueness and stubbornness of the Jewish people and their disloyalty to God.

`` A Toast To The Bride '', sung by Clarence Nordstrom, playing a character called Old Man Toomey, is quite simple, direct and touching.

One of those delightful surprise additions, which so frequently occur in jazz programs, was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe Jones, drumming to `` Old Man River '', which seems to have been elected the favorite solo for the boys on the batterie at this year's concerts.

They neither liked nor disliked the Old Man.

The Old Man was unimportant.

but here he was just Signore or the Old Man.

The only thing unusual about the Old Man had long since happened.

Once the Old Man had had a wife.

The way she strutted down the street, the Old Man would have been blind not to have noticed both.

But if the Old Man even thought about his wife now, nobody cared a fig.

Sameness for the Old Man was framed in by a wall of ginkgo trees which divided these quarters from the city.

Did the Old Man remember them there??

The Old Man silently fed upon these streets.

The Old Man near the corner let the shadow pass over him, sensing something portentous in it.

There would be time enough, perhaps the Old Man reassured himself, to pay the devil his due.

* " That Dirty Old Man " — Domina

Called the " Grand Old Man " later in life, he was always a dynamic popular orator who appealed strongly to British workers and lower middle class.

The mountain was the setting for a children's story, The Old Man of Lochnagar, told originally by Prince Charles to his younger brothers, Andrew and Edward, and published in 1980 with royalties accruing to The Prince's Trust.

In 1954, Compañía ‘ Ron Bacardi ’ S. A. paid him homage when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature of his novel The Old Man and the Sea ( 1952 ), in which he honored the Company by mentioning its Hatuey beer.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante wrote an account of the festivities for the periodical Ciclón, titled The Old Man and the Brand ( El Viejo y la marca ).

Next to the stage was a bar, at which people crowded, ordering daiquiris and beer, all free .” A sign at the event read: Bacardí rum welcomes the author of The Old Man and the Sea.

In his article The Old Man and the Daiquiri, Wayne Curtis tells us how Hemingway ’ s “ home bar also held a bottle of Bacardí rum .” Hemingway wrote in Islands in the Stream “… this frozen daiquirí, so well beaten as it is, looks like the sea where the wave falls away from the bow of a ship when she is doing thirty knots .”

Smith's works consist of: a single novel, originally published in two volumes in edited form as The Planet Buyer, also known as The Boy Who Bought Old Earth ( 1964 ) and The Underpeople ( 1968 ), and later restored to its original form as Norstrilia ( 1975 ); and 32 short stories ( collected in The Rediscovery of Man ( 1993 ), including two versions of the short story " War No. 81-Q ").

" This is a training station we're going to leave morally and physically fit to lick ' Old Man Depression ,'" boasted the newsletter, Happy Days, of a North Carolina camp.

#" Old Man " – 3: 21

* My Old Man ( 1939 )