In this paper, we study the conceptual unity of the Old Testament books. The parallel contexts of two books of the «counsel literature», The Book of Nahum and David's Book of Psalms, in Old Church Slavonic and in Russian were used as source material. The data were studied from conceptual, cognitive lexical-semantic and structural aspects with the subsequent comparison of the results. Methods of study included cognitive, conceptual, structural-semantic, and linguistic exegesis analysis. Our research has confirmed the unity of parallel contexts at the levels of textual concepts, lexis, lexical semantics, poetics and the ability to form spiritual and symbolic reality, which is elicited during the exegesis. We also prove that the Book of Nahum (7th century BC) continues the poetic tradition of David's Book of Psalms (10th century BC).
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