The Old Testament: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
in the first century, the writings we now call the Old Testament were simply Scripture for Israel, and thus for Jesus and the apostles. The first generation of the church had no inkling of a New Testament, much less of a need for one. They had the Law of Moses; they had prophets like Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel; they had the psalms of King David
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Tanakh (an acronym for Torah, or Pentateuch; Nevi’im, or Prophets; and Ketuvim, or Writings).
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first five books of the Hebrew Bible—known as the “Tanakh”—which Christians refer to as “the Old Testament.”
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So the Hebrew Bible became part of the Christian canon, albeit renamed and reinterpreted as the Old Testament.