The Old Testament is the part of the Bible dealing with the time before Jesus. Jews call it the "Tanakah". The term "Old Testament,"1 or more properly "Old Covenant," is a Christian designation, reflecting the belief of the early Christian Church that the "new covenant" mentioned in Jer. 31:31-34 was fulfilled in Jesus and that the Christian scriptures set forth the "new covenant," just as the Jewish scriptures set forth the "old covenant" The Old testament includes history, Mythology, laws (some of them barbaric) and other material.