Hebrew Bible
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- This article discusses usage of the term "Hebrew Bible". For the article on the Hebrew Bible itself, see Tanakh.
Hebrew Bible refers to the common portions of the Jewish and Christian canons. Its use is favored by most academic Biblical scholars as a neutral term that is preferred to both Tanakh (the term used by Judaism) and Old Testament (the term historically used by Christianity) when discussing the text in academic writing. (For instance, see section 4.3 of The SBL Handbook of Style from the Society of Biblical Literature.) Hebrew here may refer to either the Hebrew language or to the Jews (the Hebrew people)—who historically used the Hebrew language as a spoken language, and have continuously used the language in prayer and study—or both.
Because it refers to the common portions of the Jewish and Christian biblical canons, it does not encompass the deuterocanonical books, largely from the Koine Greek Septuagint translation, included in the Old Testament by the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches; thus it can be argued that the term Hebrew Bible only corresponds fully to the Old Testament in use by the Protestant denominations that follow Jerome's Veritas Hebraica doctrine.
Further reading
- Anderson, Bernhard. Understanding the Old Testament. (ISBN 0139483993)
See also
- Books of the Bible for the differences between these two versions of the text, or the much more detailed Biblical canon.
- Greek Scriptures
- Masoretic Text
- Old Testament for the history of the Hebrew Bible and its interpretation within the Christian tradition.
- Tanakh for the history of the Hebrew Bible and its interpretation within the Jewish tradition.cs:Hebrejská bible
