{"slug": "old-testament", "label": "Old Testament", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19786", "qid": "Q19786", "description": "first division of the Christian biblical canon", "entries": 11, "years": 11, "span": [-570, 1950], "span_label": ["571 BCE", "1950 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 7}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "new-testament", "label": "New Testament", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "vulgate", "label": "Vulgate", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "christianity", "label": "Christianity", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "latin", "label": "Latin", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jerome", "label": "Jerome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "reims", "label": "Reims", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bible", "label": "Bible", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "martin-luther", "label": "Martin Luther", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "wittenberg", "label": "Wittenberg", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bastille", "label": "Bastille", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "french-language", "label": "French language", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "origen", "label": "Origen", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -570, "year_label": "571 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Ezekiel, prophet in the Old Testament after whom the Book of Ezekiel is named.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1344986380#Deaths", "title": "571 BC", "revid": 1344986380, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -429, "year_label": "430 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Traditional date where scholars believe the Hebrew prophet known as Malachi writes the 39th and last book, and last of the prophetic books, of the Old Testament of the Biblical canon, the Book of Malachi. Biblical books written between now and the millennium will not be included in the Hebrew Bible and in some Christian traditions considered Biblical apocrypha.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342662145#Religion", "title": "430 BC", "revid": 1342662145, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 142, "year_label": "142 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Marcion proclaims that the Old Testament is incompatible with Christianity.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371187866#Religion", "title": "AD 142", "revid": 1371187866, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 239, "year_label": "239 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Origen publishes the Old Testament in five languages (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1270781286#Religion", "title": "239", "revid": 1270781286, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 390, "year_label": "390 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Jerome, having finished the Latin translation of the New Testament, begins translating the Old Testament.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355430318#Religion", "title": "390", "revid": 1355430318, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1534, "year_label": "1534 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 4", "text": "October 4 – As the Michaelmas fair opens in Wittenberg, Martin Luther's translation of the complete Christian Bible into German is offered for sale for the first time. The work, printed on 1,824 pages in two volumes by Hans Lufft adds the Old Testament including the deuterocanonical books to Luther's 1522 translation of the New Testament, and includes woodcut illustrations.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369558671#October–December", "title": "1534", "revid": 1369558671, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1563, "year_label": "1563 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 4", "text": "December 4 – The Council of Trent (which had opened on December 13, 1545) officially closes. It reaffirms all major Roman Catholic doctrines, and declares the Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament to be canonical, along with the rest of the Bible. Chapter 1, Session 24, promulgates the decree Tametsi, stipulating that for a marriage to be valid, consent (the essence of marriage) as expressed in the vows has to be given publicly before witnesses, one of whom has to be the parish priest.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369164885#October–December", "title": "1563", "revid": 1369164885, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1609, "year_label": "1609 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Douay–Rheims Bible Old Testament translation from the Vulgate into English vol. 1 is published in Reims.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365588617#Date_unknown", "title": "1609", "revid": 1365588617, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1666, "year_label": "1666 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 13", "text": "May 13 – French theologian Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy is imprisoned in the Bastille after his conviction for heresy in connection with the Jansenist movement. Sacy uses his two and one-half years of incarceration (which lasts until November 14, 1668), to create the Bible du Port-Royal, a first French language rendition of the Bible, finishing a translation of the Old Testament from the Vulgate, written in Latin, that had been started by his brother Antoine, and then beginning work on the New Testament.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365988943#April–June", "title": "1666", "revid": 1365988943, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1943, "year_label": "1943 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Martin Noth's groundbreaking work of Old Testament scholarship, Überlieferungsgeschichtliche Studien: Die sammelnden und bearbeitenden Geschichtswerke im Alten Testament, is published.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373526844#Date_unknown", "title": "1943", "revid": 1373526844, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1950, "year_label": "1950 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Knox's Translation of the Vulgate Old Testament (commissioned by the Catholic Church) is published.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371638577#Date_unknown", "title": "1950", "revid": 1371638577, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}]}