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A-Z: General definitions: Testament
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1. A document indicating how a person's possessions are to be distributed after their death, a will; 2. a covenant or sworn statement. The Christian Bible is divided into the Old and New Testaments, indicating two different agreements or covenants made with humans by God.
The Christian Bible consists of the Old Testament scriptures inherited from Judaism, together with the New Testament, drawn from writings produced from c.40-125CE, which describe the life of Jesus and the establishment of the Christian church.
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