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Old Testament
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The Bible is a collection of religious writings comprising two parts: the Old Testament and the New Testament (Testament means ―agreement‖— namely, the agreement between God and Man). The former is about God and the Laws of God; the latter, the doctrine of Jesus Christ.
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From the ancient times, people have sought to understand the world in which they live, to understand themselves as human beings. Big questions for them: How did the world begin? How did life come to be? And what is man? The Bible says, God created the heaven and earth. When the world was formed, God created man and woman—Adam and Eve. They lived in perfect happiness in the Garden of Eden. But at the temptation of the
conscience. So God spoke to Noah about his intention and told him to build an ark to protect him and his kins from the waters. • Noah followed God‘s instructions. For 40 days it rained, the whole earth was covered with water, those sheltered in the ark being the only survivals. b. Noah‘s ark: recordings of God‘s intention of destroying the world and instruction of sheltering the Noah‘s big family in an ark.
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Exodus: a religious history of the Hebrews during their flight from Egypt, the period when they began to receive God‘s Law Leviticus(利未记）: a collection fo privitive laws Numbers（民数记）: a contituation of the account of the flight from Egypt with two censuses about the Exodus Deuteronomy（申命记）: final words of Moses to his people, restating his
wheat, figs and olives. • Unfortunately a serious drought occurred about a hundred years later, which drove the Hebrews to Egypt. • About six hundred years later, the descendents of the once welcomed guests in Egypt were forced into slavery, degraded and persecuted in every possible way. • Around 1300 B.C., Moses, the famous Hebrew leader, went to see the pharaoh of Egypt, telling him that Yahweh wanted the pharaoh
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About 1,300 B.C., the Hebrews came to settle in Palestine, known as Cannan at that time, and formed small kingdoms. Their history was handed down orally from one generation to another in the form of folktales and stories, which were recorded later in the Old Testament, which still later became the first part of the Christian Bible. Though a minor tribe in ancient Middle East with a small population, the Hebrews made one of the greatest
serpent one day, Eve picked the fruit from the forbidden tree and shared it with Adam. Immediately afterwards, they were driven from Paradise and went forth into the world. Thus, man‘s story of misfortune and hardships began. a. The Fall of Man: Lord God created man-Adam and his help mate, woman-Eve, to be one flesh naked and unashamed. After sinned, they were driven out of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
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Judaism and Christianity are closely related, and in fact, it was the Jewish tradition which gave birth to Christianity. Both of them originated in Palestine—the hub of migration and trade routes, which led to exchange of ideas over wide areas. Some 3,800 years ago the ancestors of the Jews– the Hebrews, the travelling merchants – wandered through the deserts of the Middle East, and so they meant ―wanderers‖.
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After the flood of 150 days, Noah‘s sons (Shem, Ham and Japheth) moved about to live and multiply in different places. Generations later, the various nations of ancient world came into being. And among all them, the Old Testament concentrated on one– the Hebrews belonging to the Semitic tribe. As the legend goes, around 1900 B.C., there lived a descendent of Noah in Ur by the name of Abraham.

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Background Information About the Bible General Introduction
Among all the religions for people to worship, Christianity is by far the most influential in the West. Every phase of man‘s life is touched by this religion, so much so that it has become part and parcel of Western culture. Judeo-Christian tradition constitutes one of the two major components of European culture.
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God told Abraham that he and his people should not worship so many divinities as their neighbours did but to obey and worship him, Yahweh, as the only true God. And as a reward, God promised them the land of Cannan (promised land). Thus, Abraham led the Hebrews to the Promised Land, which roughly correponds to the present-day Paletine. From then on they gave up trading and turned to raising sheep and growing