question: what is the difference between the old testament and new testament?
comment: The old testament is basically the stores of the Bible before Jesus was born. The old testament is also the Torah in Jewish tradition. The new testament is the part of the Bible about Jesus's birth and his life.
passages: Development of the Old Testament canon
  
  The Old Testament is the first section of the two-part Christian biblical canon; the second section is the New Testament. The Old Testament includes the books of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) or protocanon, and in various Christian denominations also includes deuterocanonical books. Orthodox Christians, Catholics and Protestants use different canons, which differ with respect to the texts that are included in the Old Testament.
   It varies in many places from the Masoretic Text and includes numerous books no longer considered canonical in some traditions: 1 and 2 Esdras, Judith, Tobit, 3 and 4 Maccabees, the Book of Wisdom, Sirach, and Baruch. Early modern Biblical criticism typically explained these variations as intentional or ignorant corruptions by the Alexandrian scholars, but most recent scholarship holds it is simply based on early source texts differing from those later used by the Masoretes in their work.
   Section::::Formation.:Latin.
   Section::::Relationship to earlier and contemporaneous literature.
  
  Books that later formed the New Testament, like other Christian literature of the period, originated in a literary context that reveals relationships not only to other Christian writings, but also to Graeco-Roman and Jewish works. Of singular importance is the extensive use of and interaction with the Jewish Bible and what would become the Christian Old Testament. Both implicit and explicit citations, as well as countless allusions, appear throughout the books of the New Testament, from the Gospels and Acts, to the Epistles, to the Apocalypse.
  
  Section::::Early versions.
   Old Testament
  
  The Old Testament (abbreviated OT) is the first part of Christian Bibles, based primarily upon the Hebrew Bible (or Tanakh), a collection of ancient religious writings by the Israelites believed by most Christians and religious Jews to be the sacred Word of God. The second part of the Christian Bible is the New Testament.
   The Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, is the collection of scriptures making up the Bible used by Judaism; the same books, in a slightly different order, also make up the Protestant version of the Old Testament. The order used here follows the divisions used in Jewish Bibles.
  
  Section::::Table III: Deuterocanonical Old Testament.
  
  The deuterocanonical works are books included in Catholic and Orthodox but not in Jewish and Protestant Bibles.
  
  Section::::See also.
  
  BULLET::::- Authorship of the Johannine works
  
  BULLET::::- Authorship of the Petrine epistles
  
  BULLET::::- Bible manuscript
  
  BULLET::::- Books of the Bible
  
  BULLET::::- Dating the Bible
  
  Section::::References.
  
  Section::::References.:Bibliography.
   The books which make up the Christian Old Testament differ between the Catholic (see Catholic Bible), Orthodox, and Protestant (see Protestant Bible) churches, with the Protestant movement accepting only those books contained in the Hebrew Bible, while Catholic and Orthodox traditions have wider canons. A few groups consider particular translations to be divinely inspired, notably the Greek Septuagint and the Aramaic Peshitta. The Old Testament consists of many distinct books produced over a period of centuries: The first five books – Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, book of Numbers and Deuteronomy – reached their present form in the Persian period (538–332 BC), and their authors were the elite of exilic returnees who controlled the Temple at that time. The books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings follow, forming a history of Israel from the Conquest of Canaan to the Siege of Jerusalem c. 587 BC.
   The Old Testament consists of many distinct books by various authors produced over a period of centuries. Christians traditionally divide the Old Testament into four sections: (1) the first five books or Pentateuch (Torah); (2) the history books telling the history of the Israelites, from their conquest of Canaan to their defeat and exile in Babylon; (3) the poetic and "Wisdom books" dealing, in various forms, with questions of good and evil in the world; and (4) the books of the biblical prophets, warning of the consequences of turning away from God.
  
  Section::::Content.
   The New Testament is a collection of 27 books of 4 different genres of Christian literature (Gospels, one account of the Acts of the Apostles, Epistles and an Apocalypse). These books can be grouped into:
  
  The Gospels
  
  BULLET::::- Synoptic Gospels
  
  BULLET::::- Gospel According to Matthew
  
  BULLET::::- Gospel According to Mark
  
  BULLET::::- Gospel According to Luke
  
  BULLET::::- Gospel According to John
  
  Narrative literature, account and history of the Apostolic age
  
  BULLET::::- Acts of the Apostles
  
  Pauline Epistles
  
  BULLET::::- Epistle to the Romans
  
  BULLET::::- First Epistle to the Corinthians
  
  BULLET::::- Second Epistle to the Corinthians
  
  BULLET::::- Epistle to the Galatians
   New Testament
  
  The New Testament (, transl. ; ) is the second part of the Christian biblical canon, the first being the Old Testament. The New Testament discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christianity. Christians regard both the Old and New Testaments together as sacred scripture.
   The New Testament is a collection of Christian texts originally written in the Koine Greek language, at different times by various different authors. While the Old Testament canon varies somewhat between different Christian denominations, the 27-book canon of the New Testament has been almost universally recognized within Christianity since at least Late Antiquity. In almost all Christian traditions today, the New Testament consists of 27 books: the four canonical gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), the Acts of the Apostles, the fourteen epistles of Paul, the seven catholic epistles, and the Book of Revelation.
   BULLET::::- Jewish reading of the New Testament Haaretz essay on reclaiming the New Testament as an integral part of Jewish literature
  
  Section::::External links.:Development and authorship.
  
  BULLET::::- The Gospels in the official canon, and some that were not included in the Bible
  
  BULLET::::- Dating the New Testament A compilation of the dates ascribed by various scholars to the composition of the New Testament documents, accompanied by an odd statistical average of the dates
  
  Section::::External links.:Greek.
   Section::::Christian Bibles.:Old Testament.:Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament.:Syriac Orthodox.
  
  Additional books accepted by the Syriac Orthodox Church (due to inclusion in the Peshitta):
  
  BULLET::::- 2 Baruch with the Letter of Baruch (only the letter has achieved canonical status)
  
  BULLET::::- Psalms 152–155 (not canonical)
  
  Section::::Christian Bibles.:Old Testament.:Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament.:Ethiopian Orthodox.
   Section::::Narrower biblical canon.:New Testament.
  
  The Orthodox Tewahedo narrower New Testament canon consists of the entire 27 book Christian protocanon, which is almost universally accepted across Christendom.
  
  Section::::Broader biblical canon.
  
  In addition to the nine books discussed below, all of the aforementioned books of the narrower canon are also by definition part of the broader canon.
  
  Section::::Broader biblical canon.:Old Testament.
   While the Hebrew, Greek and Latin versions of the Hebrew Bible are the best known Old Testaments, there were others. At much the same time as the Septuagint was being produced, translations were being made into Aramaic, the language of Jews living in Palestine and the Near East and likely the language of Jesus: these are called the Aramaic Targums, from a word meaning "translation", and were used to help Jewish congregations understand their scriptures.
   The Testamentum is usually incorporated in the collection of Church Orders named Clementine Octateuch. Of this the Testament forms the first two books; and according to the title it contains the ""testament, or words which Our Lord spake to His holy Apostles when He rose from the dead"". The division into books, however, is clearly not original.
  
  It falls into three distinct parts: an apocalyptic introduction, a "church order" proper, and a conclusion of the same apocalyptic character as the introduction.
   The books which are part of a Christian Old Testament but which are not part of the Hebrew canon are sometimes described as deuterocanonical. In general, Protestant Bibles do not include the deuterocanonical books in their canon, but some versions of Anglican and Lutheran bibles place such books in a separate section called Apocrypha. These extra books are ultimately derived from the earlier Greek Septuagint collection of the Hebrew scriptures and are also Jewish in origin. Some are also contained in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
   Section::::Period of the Seven Ecumenical Councils (325–787).:Codex Claromontanus.
  
  The Codex Claromontanus , c. 303–67, a page found inserted into a 6th-century copy of the Epistles of Paul and Hebrews, has the Old Testament, including Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, 1–2,4 Maccabees, and the New Testament, plus "Acts of Paul", "Apocalypse of Peter", Barnabas, and Hermas, but missing Philippians, 1–2 Thessalonians, and Hebrews.
   Modern translations of the Greek New Testament are mostly based on the "Novum Testamentum Graece", which is the Nestle-Aland versions of the Greek New Testament, currently in its 28th revision, abbreviated NA28. These versions of the Greek New Testament come primarily from the Alexandrian text-type manuscripts and fragments in place of the Byzantine or Textus Receptus Koine Greek text, in an effort begun by Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901) and Fenton Hort (1828–1892).
  
  Greek text versions are used as the basis for most modern copyrighted English translations of the New Testament, with their chief foundations being:
   Section::::Formation.:Protestant.
  
  In the 16th century, the Protestant reformers sided with Jerome; yet although most Protestant Bibles now have only those books that appear in the Hebrew Bible, they have them in the order of the Greek Bible.
   Christian Bibles range from the 73 books of the Catholic Church canon, the 66 books of the canon of some denominations or the 80 books of the canon of other denominations of the Protestant Church, to the 81 books of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church canon. The first part of Christian Bibles is the Greek Old Testament, which contains, at minimum, the above 24 books of the Tanakh but divided into 39 books and ordered differently. The second part is the Greek New Testament, containing 27 books; the four Canonical gospels, Acts of the Apostles, 21 Epistles or letters and the Book of Revelation.
   BULLET::::- Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch (2 Baruch)
  
  BULLET::::- Letter of Aristeas (Letter to Philocrates regarding the translating of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek)
  
  BULLET::::- Life of Adam and Eve
  
  BULLET::::- Martyrdom and Ascension of Isaiah
  
  BULLET::::- Psalms of Solomon
  
  BULLET::::- Sibylline Oracles
  
  BULLET::::- Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch)
  
  BULLET::::- Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
  
  Section::::Christian Bibles.:Old Testament.:Pseudepigraphal books.:Book of Enoch.
   By the 4th century, the existence—even if not the exact contents—of both an Old and New Testament had been established. Lactantius, a 3rd–4th century Christian author wrote in his early-4th-century Latin "Institutiones Divinae" ("Divine Institutes"):
  
  Section::::Books.
  
  Section::::Books.:The Gospels.
   The name "Old Testament" reflects Christianity's understanding of itself as the fulfillment of Jeremiah's prophecy of a New Covenant (which is similar to "testament" and often conflated) to replace the existing covenant between God and Israel (Jeremiah 31:31). The emphasis, however, has shifted from Judaism's understanding of the covenant as a racially or tribally-based contract between God and Jews to one between God and any person of faith who is "in Christ".
  
  Section::::See also.
  
  BULLET::::- Abrogation of Old Covenant laws
  
  BULLET::::- Biblical and Quranic narratives
  
  BULLET::::- Book of Job in Byzantine illuminated manuscripts
  
  BULLET::::- Books of the Bible
   BULLET::::- Revelation, or the Apocalypse
  
  The New Testament books are ordered differently in the Catholic/Orthodox/Protestant tradition, the Slavonic tradition, the Syriac tradition and the Ethiopian tradition.
  
  Section::::Christian Bibles.:New Testament.:Original language.
  
  The mainstream consensus is that the New Testament was written in a form of Koine Greek, which was the common language of the Eastern Mediterranean from the Conquests of Alexander the Great (335–323 BCE) until the evolution of Byzantine Greek (c. 600).
  
  Section::::Christian Bibles.:New Testament.:Historic editions.
  