1) It's in the original language. Translations lose all but the simplest level of meaning.
2) It has cantillation-marks, which provide punctuation and further meaning or feeling.
3) Samuel (1&2) is one book. The same for Kings and Chronicles.
4) The Twelve (Hosea, Yoel, Amos, etc.) are counted as one.
5) Ezra and Nehemiah are counted as one.
6) It contains: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the Twelve Minor Prophets (Hosea, Joel, etc.), Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra & Nehemiah, and Chronicles.
7) According to an ancient tradition, the Hebrew Bible contains two levels of paragraph-divisions. Today's chapter numbers are recent (~600 years) and non-traditional.
8) The handwritten scrolls contain no vowels. The vowels may be found in the printed text.
1) It's in the original language. Translations lose all but the simplest level of meaning.
2) It has cantillation-marks, which provide punctuation and further meaning or feeling.
3) Samuel (1&2) is one book. The same for Kings and Chronicles.
4) The Twelve (Hosea, Yoel, Amos, etc.) are counted as one.
5) Ezra and Nehemiah are counted as one.
6) There are twenty-four books; anything else is apocrypha and is not accepted or studied. The 24 are:
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the Twelve Minor Prophets (Hosea, Joel, etc.), Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra & Nehemiah, and Chronicles (all only in the original Hebrew).
7) According to an ancient tradition, the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) contains two levels of paragraph-divisions. Today's chapter numbers are recent (~600 years) and non-traditional.
8) The handwritten scrolls contain no vowels. The vowels may be found in the printed text.See also the Related Links.
Link: What is the history of the Hebrew Bible?
Link: Some facts about Torah-scrolls
1) It's in the original language. Translations lose all but thesimplest level of meaning.2) It has cantillation-marks, which provide punctuation and furthermeaning or feeling.3) Samuel (1&2) is one book. The same for Kings and Chronicles.4) The Twelve (Hosea, Yoel, Amos, etc.) are counted as one.5) Ezra and Nehemiah are counted as one.6) It contains: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy,Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, theTwelve Minor Prophets (Hosea, Joel, etc.), Psalms, Proverbs, Job,Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel,Ezra & Nehemiah, and Chronicles.7) According to an ancient tradition, the Hebrew Bible contains twolevels of paragraph-divisions. Today's chapter numbers are recent(~600 years) and non-traditional.8) The handwritten scrolls contain no vowels. The vowels may befound in the printed text.
Jewish.
Surprise! The entire "old testament" is the translation of the Hebrew/Jewish Bible.
He was Jewish. Jesus was Jewish, Mary was Jewish.
See the attached Related Link for a synopsis of the books of the Jewish Bible.
The Tanach (Jewish Bible) includes the Jewish prophets, it does not include the prophets of other religions.
The complete Jewish Bible is a translation for American people or people that can only speak English. This way everybody who can speak English, can read the Jewish Bible.
A bible is presented to the Confirmation candidate as a sign for him/her to live by the faith in Christ.
the Jewish bible
Jude is not a part of the Jewish Bible. Jewish tradition holds that the canon of the Jewish Bible was closed 2350 years ago.
Jude is not a part of the Jewish Bible. Jewish tradition holds that the canon of the Jewish Bible was closed 2350 years ago.
There isn't so much a Jewish Bible, as there is the Tanakh, and the Old Testament of the Christian Bible is effectively the same as the Tanakh. This results from the fact that Christianity originated as a Jewish sect.
The Jewish Bible is not called the Torah. Jewish Bible, called the Tanakh, contains 24 books. The Torah represents only the first 5 books (Genesis through Deuteronomy).