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Abrahamic Traditions (Judaism (Books (Torah (five books) (Genesis (chapter…

- - - - Genesis
        
        chapter 1 and 2 - Two accounts of creation -
        
        chapter 3 - Garden narrative
        
        chapter 11 - story of Babel
        
        chapter 4 - story of fratricide
        
        chapter 12 - Abrahamic covernent
        
        Abram (Abraham), and his wife Saria commanded by G-d to leave their ancestral birthplace, to travel to the promised land. G-d enters into a covenant with Abraham and assures him that his descendants will be as
        numerous as the stars of heaven.
      - Exodus
        
        Abraham's descendants end up in Egypt. Moses frees them from slavery in Egypt. At Mt Sinai G-d revels the Torah to the people.
      - Middle of Exodus, and the books of Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy
        
        Israel punctuated by complaints and rebellion against G-d and Moses.
      - End
        
        Moses' death. Joshua appointed as his successor to lead the people into the land of Israil
- - - - Old Testament
        
        Accounts of creation
        
        Origin of the Israelites
      - New Testament
        
        Contains book that proclaim belief in Jesus as the messiah
        
        Books
        
        Starts with the Gospels
        
        Mathew
        
        Mark
        
        Luke
        
        John
        
        Gospel means "God news" as there are intended to proclaim faith in Jesus as the messiah
        
        Acts of the Apostles
        
        Luke's account how followers of Jesus grew and spread their message to the world
        
        Letters of Epistles
        
        Written instructions from the times of the apostles to the various Christian communities established in first century CE
        
        Relelation
        
        Written during a Roman persecution at the end of the first century
- - - - Has no obvious chronology or discrete sections e.g legal, narrative, homiletic etc.
      - More compact than those Hebrew scriptures or the Christian New Testament
      - Treated as one unit
    - - Contains numerous references to Hebrew and Christian scripturess
      - Assumes people are familiar with the earlier text
      - Contains references to people in the other scription, not arranged in any chronological order
      - Uses characters and events familiar to Jews and Christians to make specific moral and theological points