Hebrew Bible
Canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, including the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim.
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Biblical Hebrew
Archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanite branch of Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the Land of Israel, roughly west of the Jordan River and east of the Mediterranean Sea.
Archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanite branch of Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the Land of Israel, roughly west of the Jordan River and east of the Mediterranean Sea.
Biblical Hebrew as recorded in the Hebrew Bible reflects various stages of the Hebrew language in its consonantal skeleton, as well as a vocalization system which was added in the Middle Ages by the Masoretes.
Chapters and verses of the Bible
The chapter and verse divisions did not appear in the original texts; they form part of the paratext of the Bible.
The chapter and verse divisions did not appear in the original texts; they form part of the paratext of the Bible.
Some chapter divisions also occur in different places, e.g. Hebrew Bibles have 1 Chronicles 5:27–41 where Christian translations have 1 Chronicles 6:1–15
Septuagint
The Greek Old Testament, or Septuagint (, ; from the septuaginta; often abbreviated 70; in Roman numerals, LXX), is the earliest extant Greek translation of books from the Hebrew Bible.
Biblical Aramaic
Biblical Aramaic is the form of Aramaic that is used in the books of Daniel and Ezra in the Hebrew Bible.
Torah
The Torah ( Tōrā, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
Rabbinic literature
Entire spectrum of rabbinic writings throughout Jewish history.
Entire spectrum of rabbinic writings throughout Jewish history.
The terms meforshim and parshanim (commentaries/commentators) almost always refer to later, post-Talmudic writers of rabbinic glosses on Biblical and Talmudic texts.
Nevi'im
Nevi'im (נְבִיאִים Nəḇīʾīm, "Prophets", literally "spokespersons") is the second major division of the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh), between the Torah (instruction) and Ketuvim (writings).
Christianity
Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.
Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.
Its adherents, known as Christians, make up a majority of the population in 157 countries and territories, and believe that Jesus is the Son of God, whose coming as the messiah was prophesied in the Hebrew Bible (called the Old Testament in Christianity) and chronicled in the New Testament.
Israelites
For the citizens of the modern State of Israel, see Israelis.
For the citizens of the modern State of Israel, see Israelis.
According to the Hebrew Bible, the Israelites are the descendants of Jacob, who was later renamed Israel.
Ketuvim
The Ketuvim ( Kəṯūvīm "writings") is the third and final section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), after Torah (instruction) and Nevi'im (prophets).