The Hebrew belief system (Torah, Old Testament) included the first 5 books of Moses that in detail gave information about the understandings of earth, commandments of god El or later Yahweh, or combined, Yahweh-El on many aspects of human life and working of the divine concepts such as life after death or lack thereof while also including historical accounts in almost poetic form from the reference point of semitic people on their exile from Egypt from the cruel rule of their Pharaoh and their aftermath. The advent of Hebrew belief system heralded the change from a polytheistic understanding to a monotheistic one where all “inferior” gods would become one under the name of Yahweh-El, the one true god. Later, the emergence of Christian Bible carried on over many notions first brought with its Hebrew counterpart.

 The Old Testament in its earlier stages saw the world as a three part structure where it was divided between the heavens as skies above, Earth being in the middle, and the underworld below. These concepts are interestingly similar to how the Greek pantheon categorizes the parts of the world in its many myths as declaring the skies where the deathless gods live and the place where mortals at times are priveleged to meet them, the Earth as where the mortal souls of both animals and humans wander experiencing their short and predetermined fates as animate beings while the underworld being a misty and dark place where souls of the dead are present in the form of shades.

 These features and some more can be found in the Christian Bible too, predominantly stemming from the fact that both the Torah and Bible exists to further the commands of god to mankind. Also, both Jesus of Nazareth and Abraham have the one God reveal their word to them, and to command them to spread his belief to their people. The Christian Bible also reflects with the Hebrew belief that heavens are in the skies where God himself resides, called paradise, meaning “the garden of god”. The seven sins that are condemned by the Christian Bible are also frowned upon by the Hebrews. All in all, many of the notions that are pervasive in Torah are also present in Christian Bible, easing the the popular conversion of people from Judaism to Christianism.