Old Testament stories
Ancient Hebrew tales
Old Testament stories are the narratives found in the Hebrew Bible—accounts of creation, flood, exodus, conquest, and the lives of patriarchs, prophets, and kings.
The phrase often appears in religious education contexts: The children learned Old Testament stories in Sunday school.
It can also refer to retellings or adaptations of this material in other media.
- Adam and EveBiblical original humans
- fall of manHumanity's first disobedience
- AbrahamFirst Hebrew patriarch
- Cain and AbelAdam's sons, first brothers
- MosesHebrew prophet, liberator
Joshua · walls of Jericho · Esther · Ruth · Tower of Babel · Garden of Eden · Samson · fiery furnace · Noah's Ark · Job · Jacob's ladder · David · burning bush · Jonah · Solomon · Isaiah · Sodom and Gomorrah · plague of locusts
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Sacred Christian narrative texts
Acts of the Apostles · Book of Revelation · Revelation · nativity story
Old Testament storiesmodern literature
Recent centuries' written works
fairy tales · folk tales · pseudepigrapha · historical fiction
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