They agree to become a nation of priests, a community of saints. Following the line of Paul's vision, Christians came to call the Hebrew Scriptures the Old Covenant or Testament. They called their own scriptures the New Covenant or Testament. The term Hebrew Scriptures is an artificial construct made by scholars, and it is considered ridiculous by many Jewish persons. Scholars wanted a non-sectarian way of referring to the books in question.
Scholars belong to a sectarian group of their own.
Science has centered its activities in the university. It is the community of scientifically oriented scholars who are uncomfortable with sectarian names for the Bible. Later the Greeks and the Romans allowed this legal arrangment to continue. It came to an end in A.D. 66. The Torah was later supplemented with a collection of writings called the Prophets.