English-French translations for Old Testament

• Ancien Testament
  Faute de perspectives politiques, la recette de l'Ancien Testament, "il pour il, dent pour dent", mène tout droit à l'horreur et au chaos. When there are no political prospects on the horizon, the Old Testament prescription of 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' leads directly to horror and to chaos.

Definition of Old Testament

• The first major part of the Christian Bible, covering events before the coming of Christ, corresponding roughly to the Jewish Tanakh. Usually subdivided into the categories of law, history, poetry , and prophecy

Examples

• The Old Testament says that eating shellfish is a sin

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