# The Literature of the Old Testament Author: Moore, George Foot, 1851-1931 Genre: Category: History - Religious Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40173 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Literature+of+the+Old+Testament+Moore&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary The early Christians received the Sacred Books of the Jews as inspired Scripture containing a divine revelation and clothed with divine authority, and till well on in the first century of the Christian era the name Scriptures was applied exclusively to these books. In time, as they came to attach the same authority to the Epistles and Gospels, and to call them, too, Scriptures (2 Pet. iii. 16), they distinguished the Christian writings as the Scriptures of the new dispensation, or, as they called it, the "new covenant," from the Scriptures of the "old covenant" (2 Cor. iii. 6, 14), the Bible of the Jews. The Greek word for covenant (_diathéké_) was rendered in the early Latin translation... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/35/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/12/index.md) - [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/1/index.md) - [vii. 1-6, the former of which, at least, is pre-exilic; while the book](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/28/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/25/index.md) - [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/13/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/15/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/24/index.md) - [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/11/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/34/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/17/index.md) - [xxviii. 1-4, indeed, an early prophecy against Samaria is made to](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/20/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/7/index.md) - [c. 28 (collision with the "false prophet" Hananiah, in the beginning](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/22/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/29/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/14/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/23/index.md) - [Book II. (51-65, 68-70, with 72), which probably stood immediately](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/30/index.md) - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/21/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/32/index.md) - [xxiii. 1-14--what follows is a later supplement) seems more](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/19/index.md) - [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/16/index.md) - [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/3/index.md) - [xxxvi. 31, for example, implies the existence of the Israelite](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/4/index.md) - [c. 8, with its personification of the divine wisdom, first of God's](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/33/index.md) - [cc. 1 and 2 the poem consists of twenty-two tiercets, the first line](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/31/index.md) - [Chapter 3 returns to condemnation, which turns at last on the heads of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/26/index.md) - [xxii. 15-25 is a prophecy of Isaiah singular in the fact that it is](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/18/index.md) - [iv. 11-13, again, many nations gather against Zion, but it crushes](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-the-old-testament-40173/chapters/27/index.md)