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  • Go to the Old Testament; go to the New.  (source)
    Old Testament = the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews (Jews) which is the first half of the Christian Bible
  • Dad came upstairs every evening and settled himself into a sofa in the Chapel, where he would cough and watch TV or read the Old Testament.†  (source)
    Old Testament = the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews which is the first half of the Christian Bible
  • Whether they favored the unflinching hand of the Old Testament or the more forgiving hand of the New, their submission to the will of God helped them to understand, or at least accept the inescapable course of events.†  (source)
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  • Flipping through the Old Testament, he found the Book of Job.†  (source)
    Old Testament = the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews which is the first half of the Christian Bible
  • Still, no matter what your religious beliefs, to get the most out of your reading of European and American literatures, knowing something about the Old and New Testaments is essential.†  (source)
    Old and New Testaments = 2 sections of the Christian Bible -- with the old being scripture of the Hebrews and the new being scripture impacted by Jesus
  • Marie-Laure's great-uncle, locked with several hundred others inside the gates of Fort National, a quarter mile offshore, squints up and thinks, Locusts, and an Old Testament proverb comes back to him from some cobwebbed hour of parish school: The locusts have no king, yet all of them go out in ranks.†  (source)
    Old Testament = the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews which is the first half of the Christian Bible
  • His Koran, being the most recent holy book, takes precedence over the Old and New Testaments.†  (source)
    Old and New Testaments = 2 sections of the Christian Bible -- with the old being scripture of the Hebrews and the new being scripture impacted by Jesus
  • There was this guy named Job in the Old Testament who was a believer but had really terrible things happen to him.†  (source)
    Old Testament = the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews which is the first half of the Christian Bible
  • "The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments," he read aloud from the title-page.†  (source)
    Old and New Testaments = 2 sections of the Christian Bible -- with the old being scripture of the Hebrews and the new being scripture impacted by Jesus
  • It was a beauty, a prize for a retired sea-captain's home in backwater Boston: scrimshaw and cowrie shells, Old Testament samplers cross-stitched by unmarried sisters, the smell of whale oil burning in the evenings, the stillness of growing old.†  (source)
    Old Testament = the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews which is the first half of the Christian Bible
  • 'Tis the six-and-twentieth edition, promulgated at Boston, Anno Domini 1744; and is entitled, 'The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testaments; faithfully translated into English Metre, for the Use, Edification, and Comfort of the Saints, in Public and Private, especially in New England'.†  (source)
    Old and New Testaments = 2 sections of the Christian Bible -- with the old being scripture of the Hebrews and the new being scripture impacted by Jesus
  • I'm not very sophisticated in my knowledge of the Old Testament, and I've not read the New Testament since my Sunday school days, except for those passages that I hear read aloud to me when I go to church.†  (source)
    Old Testament = the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews which is the first half of the Christian Bible
  • Northrop Frye, one of the great literary critics, said in the 1950s that biblical typology—the comparative study of types between the Old and New Testaments and, by extension, out into literature—was a dead language, and things haven't improved since then.†  (source)
    Old and New Testaments = 2 sections of the Christian Bible -- with the old being scripture of the Hebrews and the new being scripture impacted by Jesus
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