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Tanakh

Tanakh

1 9.9
A group of Jewish holy books, including the Torah, the Prophets and the Writings
  • noun
  • /təˈnɑːk/
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  • Moshe Pavan says that we have to live by the Tanakh Scripture in this country.

Examples

  • For this reason alone (the presence of the ELS codes in the Hebrew Tanakh), we therefore conclude that a logical person must accept the existence of the God of the Hebrew Bible exactly as He presents Himself in its pages.

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  • The Jewish Bible (Tanakh) is the same as the Christian Old Testament, except for its book arrangement.

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  • These three sections combined make up the "Old Testament," which is called the "Tanakh."

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  • "Ecclesiastes is one of the 24 books of the Tanakh "or Hebrew Bible.

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  • The word "Tanakh" is an acronym for Torah/Nevi'im/Ketuvim.

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  • So in those names were Claude Montefiore, the famous Jewish critic who compared the morality of Jesus with the morality in the Wisdom books of the Tanakh.

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  • Second, the Hebrew Tanakh nowhere indicates that the Messiah was to be anything but a fully human and fully empowered agent (Hebrew: shaliach) of Father YHVH.

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  • I accept UBS4 for the Greek Scriptures and BHS for the Tanakh as being the closest to the original manuscripts, with the proviso that it is possible a few of the books in the Greek Scriptures were originally written in Hebrew.

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  • Normally, when I read that verse, I tend to imagine that Philip was referring to the various general prophecies in the Tanakh (Old Testament) that foretell the Messiah's coming but without mentioning a specific name for the Messiah (besides "David" or "Son of David").

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  • The Tanakh is central to Jewish religious life and contains the foundational stories of the faith.

Synonyms

Old Testament
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16 4.0

Books that form the first part of the Christian Bible and contain Hebrew sacred writings

is the Jewish canonical collection used within Jewish tradition rather than Christian framing
Hebrew Bible
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4 3.8

The Jewish holy books that include the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings

is the identical canonical collection known by a Hebrew title
Hebrew Scripture
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1 7.0

A set of Jewish sacred writings in three parts: the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings

is the same three-part canon referred to by its traditional name
Tanach
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9.9

A collection of Jewish holy books, including the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings

is the same collection but spelled differently in some traditions

Surface Forms

Tanakh singular
Tanakhs plural

Etymology

The word Tanakh comes from the first letters of the three parts of the Hebrew Bible: Torah 'teaching' or 'law', Nevi'im 'prophets', and Ketuvim 'writings'. So Tanakh is a name for the whole collection of Jewish holy books.