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A 5 page research that examines the covenant of the Old Testament, how it relates to the Ten Commandments, and then how it applies to life today. The writer first discusses the use of covenant in the Old Testament and then how the coming of Jesus fulfilled and expanded the old covenant. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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the Jewish people to live. The following examination of the biblical use of covenant will demonstrate how this concept connects the Old and the New Testaments and relates directly
to the people of today. The idea that the Jewish people possessed a special covenant with God, from which they drew their identity as a race, is specified over
and over again throughout the Old Testament. When Moses came down from the mountain top with the Ten Commandments, it formally established a covenant, a "contrast," if you will between
God and humanity. In fact, there is considerable historical support for the argument that the Jewish people were influenced in their conception of their relationship to God by their
contact with various societies in which the use of contracts to express the nature of a divine relationship was well established. The Hittites and the Assyrians believed that the
cosmos was predicated on certain eternal truths, which the laws of the land strove to safeguard, and these laws applied equally to the ruler, no less then to his subjects
(McCarthy 135). But there was much uncertainty in this. It was accepted as a given that the universal rule of Ashur, the principal Mesopotamian deity, was the "first principle,
the very foundation of the divinely willed order of things" (McCarthy 136). However, it is not easy to work merely within a general idea, and much more information was needed
in order to secure "concrete expression" of right action in laws and codes (McCarthy 136). Therefore, a "vassal treaty" between humanity and the deity appeared to be the ideal solution
to ancient society, as it gave "a definite form and status to the divine will" (McCarthy 136). This way all parties knew in detail what was demanded, and what
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