Sir Simon Keenlyside and conductor Daniel Hyde in a performance of Elijah. Show more Dubbed the ‘Messiah of its day’, Mendelssohn’s Elijah was an instant hit and the most popular oratorio of the ...
The Christian Bible is described: made up of 66 books, two ‘Testaments’ (39 books in the Old Testament and 27 books ... s versions of the story of Daniel in the Lion’s Den – or read ...
These include Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes (or Qoheleth), Song of Songs, Esther, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah ... Christians adopted the phrase "Old Testament" to refer to these sacred books ...