From Hebrew Bible to Christian Bible: Jews, Christians and the Word of God In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the ...

Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a group of Judeans to return to the land of Israel under the leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah. With that act, he helped ...

Firstly, because the Christian Bible is composed, for the greater part, of the “Holy Scriptures” (Rm 1:2) of the Jewish people, which Christians call the “Old Testament”; secondly, because ...