The titles "Old" and "New Testament" were used by St. Paul (2 Corinthians, 2:14). The term "testament," as applied to the two parts of the Bible, means: a covenant, agreement, pact. In the ...
In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...
Instead of the three-part logic of the Tanakh, Christian Bibles divide the Old Testament into five parts. The Torah, or Pentateuch, is the same collection of five books in all Bibles and is always ...