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The Orthodox Church also numbers among Traditionally the genuine Old Testament is divided into the law books of (the Pentateuch and historical books), the Old Testament Psalms and other wisdom books, and the so-called prophets because of what [[apocryphalJesus Christ|Christ]]said in [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2024:44;&version=9; Luke 24:44] books::And he said unto them, meaning literally These are the secret or hidden writings. Other Christians put these books words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be:fulfilled, which were written in a secondary place or reject completely their being the ''law of divine inspirationMoses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms'', concerning me.{{cleanupref|1}}
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The '''Old Testament''' is first of the two divisions of [[Holy Scripture]]. It is According to historians, the writings of Old Testament was composed between the old covenant or agreement 5th century BC and contains lawthe 2nd century BC, prophecythough parts of it, history, poetry, stories, sayings, prayerssuch as the Torah, letters and symbolical visions to record Song of God's revelations Deborah (Judges 5), date back much earlier.
The term ''Old Testament'' itself is a translation of the Latin Vetus Testamentum, from the Greek η Παλαια Διαθηκη (hē Palaia Diathēkē), all meaning "The Old Covenant (or Testament)". The Latin rendered testament in English originally came from the Latin for witness and from there expanded to mean "to make a will"; thus, though it is purported to be synonymous with "covenant," it has a distinct legal flavoring. Further semantic extentions in English have distorted the word even more: see testament on [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/testament www.dictionary.com].
The Orthodox Church also numbers among the genuine books of the Old Testament the so-called apocryphal books, meaning literally the secret or hidden writings. A less Protestant-biased term for these parts of Scripture is the [[deuterocanonical]] writings.
==Pentateuch==
* [http://207.44.232.113/~bible/ot/main.htm Old Testament Studies]
* [http://st-takla.org/pub_Deuterocanon/Deuterocanon-Apocrypha_El-Asfar_El-Kanoneya_El-Tanya__0-index.html About the Deuterocanon (Second Canonical Books)]
*{{note|1}}From the King James Version, public domain. Obtained off of [www.biblegateway.com].
*[[w:Old Testament Wikipedia's Old Testament]]
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