1. Old Testament and Judaism. The interpretation of the Bible begins in the ОТ when later authors, such as the prophets and certain psalms, give a theological interpretation of the history of Israel handed down in the older writings (see Ezek 38:7; Dan 9; Ecclus 44ff., and especially the re-moulding of the matter of the Books of Samuel by Chronicles, and the midrash on the ancient history of Israel in Wis 10ff.). There wa…