God’s relations with Israel were due to God’s goodness, love and compassion”; hence, the biblical authors often qualify “covenant” with such terms as hesed (love) and shalom (peace). Scholars have drawn parallels between the biblical brit (covenant) and ‘ala (oath) and their counterparts in surrounding cultures.

The covenant is a promise that God made with Abraham. According to the covenant, God would offer protection and land to Abraham and his descendants, but they must follow the path of God.

God commanded him to leave his birthplace and go to the land that I will show you. This bond between the People of Israel and their land was reaffirmed to succeeding generations through his son Isaac and his grandson Jacob: The land that I assigned to Abraham and Isaac I assign to you and to your offspring to come.

The Talmud contains the history of the Jewish religion, as well as their laws and beliefs. It is the basic tool for learning the ethics behind the customs of their religion. Torah, on the other hand, is the Hebrew word for “instruction.” The Torah is most widely known as the five books of Moses.

The Hebrew Bible is called the Tanakh after the first letter of the name of the three sections of which it is composed: the Torah, the Nevi’im, and the Kethuvim.

Some scholars believe it was written for Jewish Christians who lived in Jerusalem. Its purpose was to exhort Christians to persevere in the face of persecution.

Hebrew Bible, also called Hebrew Scriptures, Old Testament, or Tanakh, collection of writings that was first compiled and preserved as the sacred books of the Jewish people. It also constitutes a large portion of the Christian Bible.

Although in his own view Paul was the true and authoritative apostle to the Gentiles, chosen for the task from his mother’s womb (Galatians 1:15–16; 2:7–8; Romans 11:13–14), he was only one of several missionaries spawned by the early Christian movement.

Historians date this as around 1800 BCE, clearly long after circumcision was introduced by the Sumerians and Semites. Scholars cannot agree on why Abraham and his tribe adopted the practice.

The Romans demolished Corinth in 146 BC, built a new city in its place in 44 BC, and later made it the provincial capital of Greece.

The Greek city of Corinth was founded in the Neolithic Period sometime between 5000-3000 BCE. It became a major city in the 8th century BCE and was known for its architectural and artistic innovations including the invention of black-figure pottery.

Numbers, Hebrew Bemidbar (“In the Wilderness”), also called The Fourth Book Of Moses, the fourth book of the Bible. Many scholars have thus maintained that the first six books of the Old Testament form a literary unit, of which Numbers is an integral part.

The Second Epistle to the Corinthians, commonly referred to as Second Corinthians or in writing 2 Corinthians, is a Pauline epistle of the New Testament of the Christian Bible.

The Book of Revelation was written sometime around 96 CE in Asia Minor. The author was probably a Christian from Ephesus known as “John the Elder.” According to the Book, this John was on the island of Patmos, not far from the coast of Asia Minor, “because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus” (Rev. 1.10).

Each church is promised that everyone who conquers will be rewarded by Christ. Some historicists typically interpret the seven churches as representing seven different periods in the history of the Western Church from the time of Paul until the return of Jesus Christ.

Christianity. Christianity similarly uses forty to designate important time periods. Before his temptation, Jesus fasted “forty days and forty nights” in the Judean desert (Matthew 4:2, Mark 1:13, Luke 4:2). Forty days was the period from the resurrection of Jesus to the ascension of Jesus (Acts 1:3).