How do the New and Old Testament relate to each other?

The Old Testament and the New Testament of The Bible are
related.

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The Old Testament
Hebrew Scriptures are the collection of books that forms the first of the
two-part Christian Biblical canon. The contents of the Old
Testament canon vary from church to church, with the Orthodox communion
having 51 books: the shared books are those of the shortest canon, that of the major
Protestant communions, with 39
books.

The Old Testament of
The Bible, is a history and accounting of the creation of the world and the history of
the Jews, God's chosen people.

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Although it is not a history book in the modern
sense, the Old Testament is the primary source for the History of
ancient Israel and Judah.

The
tone is often dark in the sense that man sinned, and sacrifices of animals were the only
thing to atone for their wrong doings. There is also a sense of revenge: an eye for an
eye, and a tooth for a tooth—paying back one's enemies.

The
Old Testament provides genealogies, and historical events, including wars, and the
nomadic existence of the Jewish people. There are many stories about men (and women) of
God within the Jewish culture who were often great leaders and/or faithful servants.
There are prophecies, as well, with regard to the coming of the Jew's Messiah, foretold
hundreds and hundreds of years before the birth of
Christ.

The New Testament has a different tone. Based upon
the coming of Christ, their is a new sense of hope, as well as a new ideology: turn the
other cheek, more than once if necessary.

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The New Testament...is the name given to the
second major division of the Christian Bible, the first such division being the much
longer Old Testament.

Unlike the Old Testament, the
contents of the New Testament deal explicitly with Christianity, although both the Old
and New Testament are regarded, together, as Sacred Scripture. The New Testament has
therefore (in whole or in part) frequently accompanied the spread of Christianity around
the world, and both reflects and serves as a source for Christian
theology.

The New Testament
begins with the birth of Jesus, to Mary and Joseph, and continues through to his
teachings, and subsequent death at approximately the age of 33, crucified by the Romans,
at the request of a zealous group of Jews who asked for the release of a prisoner, that
Jesus would take his place. All of this was foretold in the Old Testament, but
ironically, the Jews did not accept Jesus as their
Messiah.

On the other hand, the New Testament does not only
tell of the birth, life and death of Christ, but is also offers up a new church, founded
on the teachings of Jesus, and made up of ardent followers from all nations and
cultures. The books within the New Testament record events of the new church and offer
advice on how to live Godly lives. There are prophecies, also, in the New Testament
about the "end of days."