All 4 Uses of
Old Testament
in
Anna Karenina
- "Did you have a nice walk?" said Alexey Alexandrovitch, sitting down in his easy chair, pulling the volume of the Old Testament to him and opening it.†
Part 5 *Old Testament = the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews which is the first half of the Christian Bible
- The lesson consisted of learning by heart several verses out of the Gospel and the repetition of the beginning of the Old Testament.†
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- But his father did not make him repeat it, and passed on to the lesson out of the Old Testament.†
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- Last time he had remembered their names, but now he had forgotten them utterly, chiefly because Enoch was the personage he liked best in the whole of the Old Testament, and Enoch's translation to heaven was connected in his mind with a whole long train of thought, in which he became absorbed now while he gazed with fascinated eyes at his father's watch-chain and a half-unbuttoned button on his waistcoat.†
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Definition:
the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews (Jews) which is the first half of the Christian Bible
In academic circles, the term Hebrew Bible is commonly used to refer to the Old Testament. Most scholars agree that it was written and compiled between the 12th and the 2nd century BC.