Hebrew Bible

the Hebrew Bible

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An example of the Hebrew Bible: THE JPS TANAKH: Gender-Sensitive Edition, 2023

A Jewish sacred text. Usually based on the Masoretic text. Known as תַּנַ״ךְ or TANAKH in Hebrew, which is an acronym for the various parts of the text, Torah, Nevi'im, and Kethuvim. As Wikipedia says,

Different branches of Judaism and Samaritanism have maintained different versions of the canon, including the 3rd-century BCE Septuagint text used in Second Temple Judaism, the Syriac Peshitta, the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and most recently the 10th-century medieval Masoretic Text compiled by the Masoretes, currently used in Rabbinic Judaism.

The contents of the Christian Old Testament are similar, but not equivalent, to the books of the Hebrew Bible. It lowkey annoys me when I talk about "wanting to own a Tanakh" and people joke about "cutting off the New Testament from a Bible" and giving it to me, though I appreciate the sentiment. Such sentiment betrays a Christian understanding (regardless of the lived religion of the person; I hate to use the term "culturally Christian", but if I wasn't, that term would be applicable here) and an ignorance of Jewish understanding of their sacred text. The Old Testament is a different set of anthologies. The Catholic take on the Old Testament includes the Deuterocanical works, which the Prostate Old Testament doesn't. The Prostate Old Testament also orders the books differently from the Hebrew Bible.