The Greek Empire The Translation of the Books of the Old Testament into the Greek Language

Basic Concepts.
- 1. The World.
- 2. About God.
- 3. The Attributes of God
- 4. Prayer.
- 5. Sin.
- 6. The Sign of the Cross.
- 7. Standing and Bows During Prayer.
- 8. Different Types of Prayer.
- 9. When God Hears Our Prayer.
- 10. Where and How We Can Pray to God.
- 11. The Church Building.
- 12. The Priest’s Blessing.
- 13. Icons.
- 14. Why we call ourselves Orthodox Christians.
Prayers.
- 1. Short Prayers.
The Sacred History of the Old Testament.
- Introduction to the Sacred History of the Old and New Testaments.
- 1. Creation of Heaven, the Invisible World.
- 2. Creation of the Earth, the Visible World.
- 3. How God Created the First People.
- 4. The Life of the First People in Paradise.
- 5. The Fall into Sin.
- 6. The Results of the Fall into Sin and the Promise of a Saviour.
- 7. Discussion of the Fall into Sin.
- 8. Cain and Abel.
- 9. The Flood.
- 10. The Life of Noah and His Children After the Flood.
- 11. The Building of the Tower of Babel and the Scattering of Peoples.
- 12. The Appearance of Idolatry.
- 13. Abraham.
- 14. The Appearance of God to Abraham in the Form of Three Strangers.
- 15. The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
- 16. The Offering of Isaac as a Sacrifice.
- 17. The Marriage of Isaac.
- 18. Esau and Jacob.
- 19. Jacob’s Vision of the Mystical Ladder.
- 20. Joseph.
- 21. Joseph in Egypt.
- 22. Joseph’s Meeting with His Brothers and the Moving of Jacob into Egypt.
- 23. The Story of Job the Long-suffering.
- 24. Moses.
- 25. Pascha (Passover) and the Exodus from Egypt.
- 26. The Hebrews Pass Through the Red Sea.
- 27. God Gives the Law on Mt. Sinai.
- 28. The Tabernacle.
- 29. The Forty-year Wandering of the Hebrew People, the Bronze Serpent.
- 30. The Entry of the Israelites into the Promised Land.
- 31. Judges.
- 32. The Story of Ruth.
- 33. Saul, First King of the Israelites.
- 34. King David.
- 35. King Solomon.
- 36. The Division of the Kingdom into Two: Judah and Israel.
- 37. The Prophets.
- 38. The Downfall of the Israelite Kingdom.
- 39. The Fall of the Babylonian Kingdom.
- 40. The Median-Persian Empire. Prophet Daniel in the Lion’s Den.
- 41. The Return of the Jews from Captivity in Babylon and the Construction of the Second Temple.
- 42. The Greek Empire.
- The Translation of the Books of the Old Testament into the Greek Language
- 43. The Roman Empire. The Universal Expectation of the Messiah.

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42. The Greek Empire.

The Translation of the Books of the Old Testament into the Greek Language.