The Christian Old Testament: Looking at the Hebrew Scriptures through Christian Eyes (Biblia.com)

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Many Christians see the Old Testament as “the other Testament”: a source of exciting stories to tell the kids, but not very relevant to the Christian life. The Christian Old Testament reveals the Hebrew Scriptures as the essential context of Christianity, as well as a multi-layered revelation of Christ himself.

of place in their mythologies. The pagan gods did not style themselves as Creator in the same way as the Jewish God boasted of being the Creator. “The Creation” was not an issue for the ancient world. Thus, it is not because the question of how the world came to be was a burning one that Genesis opens with the Creation. And the modality or method of creation is not even the main point of the Creation story. The Hebrew creation story was as much polemic as it was anything else. Its main point is not,

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