The collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

The Old Testament is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites. Wikipedia

The large, first section of the holy scriptures of Christianity, incorporating the Jewish Scriptures Wikipedia Disambiguation

Part of the Bible written before Jesus Wikidata