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sa7s2016 Hebrew Bible- Wikipedia Hebrew Bible From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hebrew Bible or Hebrew Scriptures (Latin: Biblia Hebraica) is the term used by biblical scholars to refer to the Tanakh (Hebrew: 7"2n; Latin: Thanach), the canonical collection of Jewish texts, which is the common textual source of several canonical editions of the Christian Old ‘Testament, They are composed mainly in Biblical Hebrew, with some passages in Biblical Aramaic (in the books of Daniel, Ezra and a few others). The content to which the Protestant Old Testament closely corresponds does not act as a source for the deuterocanonical portions of the Roman Catholic or to the Anagignoskomena portions of the Easter Orthodox Old Testaments. The term does not comment upon the naming, numbering or ordering of books, which varies with later Christian biblical canons. The term Hebrew Bible is an attempt to provide specificity with respect to contents but avoid allusion to any particular interpretative tradition or theological school of thought. It is widely used in academic writing and interfaith discussion in relatively neutral contexts meant to include dialogue among all religious traditions but not widely in the inner discourse of the religions that use its text.{!] Page from an I1th-century Aramaic Targum manuscript of the Hebrew Bible. MAYBELATER | CLOSE Dear readers, time is running out in 2016 to help Wikipedia. To protect our independence, we'll never run ads. We're sustained by donations averaging about $15. If everyone reading this right now gave $3, our fundraiser would be done within an hour. That's right, the price of a cup of coffee is all we need. If Wikipedia is useful to you, please take one minute to keep it online and growing. Thank you. Credit Card PayPal amazoncom Problems donating? | Other ways to give | Frequently asked questions | By submitting, you are agreeing to our donor privacy policy. The Wikimedia Foundation is nonprofit, tax-exempt organization, Contents #1 Usage = 1.1 Additional difficulties + 2 Origins of the Hebrew Bible and its components = 3 Scholarly editions #4 See also = 5 References = 6 Further reading Inipsilon wikipedia orgwikiHebren_ Bible we as20%6 Hebrew Blole- Wikipedia #7 External links Usage Hebrew Bible refers to the Jewish biblical canon. In its Latin form, Biblia Hebraica, it traditionally serves as a title for printed editions of the Masoretic Text. Many biblical studies scholars advocate use of the term "Hebrew Bible” (or "Hebrew Scriptures") as a neutral substitute to terms with religious connotations (e.g. the non-neutral term. "Old Testament").!2(51 The Society of Biblical Literature's Handbook of Style, which is the standard for major academic journals like the Harvard Theological Review and conservative Protestant journals like the Bibliotheca Sacra and the Westminster Theological Journal, suggests that authors "be aware of the connotations of alternative expressions such as... Hebrew Bible [and] Old Testament" without prescribing the use of either.4 Additional difficulties In terms of theology, Christianity has struggled with the relationship between "Old" and "New" Testaments from its very beginnings.©1l6] Modern Christian formulations of this tension include Supersessionism, Covenant Theology, New Covenant Theology, Dispensationalism and Dual-covenant theology. All of these formulations, except some forms of Dual-covenant theology, are objectionable to mainstream Judaism and to many Jewish scholars and writers, for whom there is one eternal covenant between God and the Israelites, and who therefore reject the term "Old Testament" as a form of antinomianism. In terms of canon, Christian usage of "Old Testament" does not refer to a universally agreed upon set of books but, rather, varies depending on denomination, Lutheranism and Protestant denominations that follow the Westminster Confession of Faith accept the entire Jewish canon as the Old Testament without additions, however in translation they sometimes give preference to the Septuagint rather than the Masoretic Text; for example, see Isaiah 7:14. In terms of language, "Hebrew" refers to the original language of the books, but it may also be taken as referring to the Jews of the Second Temple era and Jewish diaspora, and their descendants, who preserved the transmission of ‘the Masoretic Text up to the present day. The Hebrew Bible includes small portions in Aramaic (mostly in the books of Danie! and Ezra), written and printed in Aramaic square-script, which was adopted as the Hebrew alphabet after the Babylonian exile Origins of the Hebrew Bible and its components The books that constitute the Hebrew Bible developed over roughly a millennium. The oldest texts seem to come from the eleventh or tenth centuries BCE, whilst most of the other texts are somewhat later. They are edited works, being collections of various sources intricately and carefully woven together. Since the nineteenth century, most scholars have agreed that the Pentateuch (the first five books of Scriptures) consists of four sources which have been woven together. These four sources are J (Yahwist), D (Deuteronomist), E (Elohist) and P (Priestly) sources. They were combined to form the Pentateuch sometime in the sixth century BCE, This theory is now known as the documentary hypothesis, and has been the dominant theory for the past two hundred years.(" The Deuteronomist credited with the Pentateuch's book of Deuteronomy is also said to be the source of the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings (the Deuteronomistic history, or DtrH) and also in the book of Jeremiah Scholarly editions hnipsilon wikipedia orgwikiHebren_ Bible ae asr016 Hobrow Blole- Wikipedia Several editions, all titled Biblia Hebraica, have been produced by various German publishers since 1906, Between 1906 and 1955, Rudolf Kittel published nine editions of it 1966, the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft published the renamed Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia in six editions until 1997. Since 2004 the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft has published the Biblia Hebraica Quinta, including all variants of the Qumran manuscripts as well as the Masorah Magna, Other projects include: Hebrew University Bible Project Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition See also Biblical canon Books of the Bible Non-canonical books referenced in the Bible Torah References Eliezer Segal, Introducing Judaism (New York, NY: Routledge, 2009), Page: 12 2. Safire, William (1997-05-25). "The New Old Testament", The New York Times. Hamilton, Mark. "From Hebrew Bible to Christian Bible: Jews, Christians and the Word of God", Retrieved 2007-11-19. "Modern scholars often use the term 'Hebrew Bible’ to avoid the confessional terms Old Testament and Tanakh,” Alexander, Patrick H; et al, eds. (1999). The SBL Handbook of Style (PDF). Peabody, MA: Hendrickson. p. 17 (section 4.3). ISBN 1-56563-487-X. See Saciety of Biblical Literature: Questions Regarding Digital Editions... (https:/www.sbl- site. org/assets/pdfs/pubs/SBLHS2_FAQ pdf) "Marcion", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911 For the recorded teachings of Jesus on the subject see Antithesis of the LawiAntitheses, for the modem debate, see Christian views on the old covenant Hamilton, Mark (April 1998). "From Hebrew Bible to Christian Bible: Jews, Christians and the Word of God Frontline. From Jesus to Christ. WGBH Educational Foundation. Further reading Brueggemann, Walter (1997). An introduction to the Old Testament: the canon and Christian imagination. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 978-0-664-22412-7. Johnson, Paul (1987). A History of the Jews (First, hardback ed.). London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-79091-9. Kugel, James L. (1997). The Bible as It Was. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0- 674-06940-4, Kuntz, John Kenneth. The People of Ancient Israel: an introduction to Old Testament Literature, History, and Thought, Harper and Row, 1974, ISBN 0-06-043822-3 Leiman, Sid. The Canonization of Hebrew Scripture, (Hamden, CT: Archon, 1976). Levenson, Jon, Sinai and Zion: An Entry into the Jewish Bible. (San Francisco: HarperSan Francisco, 1985). Minkoff, Harvey. "Searching for the Better Text”. Biblical Archaeology Review (online). Retrieved 9 June 2011 Pritchard, James B. (1973). The Ancient Near East, Volume I. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, ISBN 0691035016. An abridgement of Ancient Near Eastem Texts Relating to the Old Testament Noth, Martin. A History of Pentateuchal Traditions. (1948; trans. by Behard Anderson; Atlanta: Scholars, 1981). hnipsilonikipetia.orgwikiHebren_ Bible ae asr016 Hobrow Blole- Wikipedia = Schniedewind, William M (2004). How the Bible Became a Book. Cambridge. ISBN 9780521536226. = Schmid, Konrad. The Old Testament: A Literary History. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2012). External links = Hebrew-English Tanakh: the Jewish Bible (http://www-publishersro Wikimedia Commons has w.com/etanakh) Complete, fully vocalized, contilated, Masoretic text @ media elated te Hebrew of the Hebrew Bible (Leningrad Codex), together with the classic Biblex (1917) English translation by the Jewish Publication Society. = Works by or about Hebrew Bible (htps://archive.org/search.php’query=%28+%22HebrewtBible%22+OR +%22Jewish+Bible%22+OR+%22Hebrew+ Scriptures%22+%29) at Internet Archive = Works by Hebrew Bible (http://librivox.org/author/4231) at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) 49 = English) (Hebrew) Hebrew Bible (http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11363/) from around 1300 CE = (English) (Hebrew) Hebrew-English Bible (http:/www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0.htm) Mechon-Mamre online edition, from 1917 Jewish Publication Society edition and the Masoretic Text. 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