The rest of the Old Testament was written in the Hebrew language. The New Testament was written in Greek, with the exception of St. Matthew's Gospel which - according to the unanimous testimony of ...

Most of the books of the Old Testament are a direct translation of the original Hebrew, while the rest are the Old Latin text. The Council of Trent made the Vulgate the official text of the ...

Yet, a closer look reveals that these prophecies, understood in their original context ... no Christian invention, but a Hebrew convention found in the Old Testament itself (see Amos 8:1-2).

His article "The Past as Destiny" will appear in the October issue of the Harvard Theological Review The Origins of the Hebrew Bible ... and Christians call the Old Testament - developed over ...