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    The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (/tɑːˈnɑːx/; Hebrew: תַּנַ״ךְ‎ Tanaḵ), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (/miːˈkrɑː/; Hebrew: מִקְרָא‎ Mīqrāʾ‍), is the canonical...
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  • canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings...
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  • Look up Tanak or Tanakh in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Tanakh or Tanak is the Hebrew Bible. Tanak or Tenak or Tanakh (Persian: طناك) may refer...
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  • 929: Tanakh B'yachad (Hebrew: Bible Together, 929 - תנך ביחד) is a project for learning one chapter of Tanakh per day (except Friday and Saturday), totaling...
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    books of the Hebrew Bible, a collection of ancient Hebrew scriptures. The Tanakh, known in English as the Hebrew Bible, has the same contents as the Old...
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  • The New Jewish Publication Society of America Tanakh (NJPS), first published in complete form in 1985, is a modern Jewish 'written from scratch' translation...
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  • canons, in varying orders, and sometimes divide or combine books. The Jewish Tanakh (sometimes called the Hebrew Bible) contains 24 books divided into three...
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    The Dead Sea Scrolls contain parts of all but one of the books of the Tanakh of the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament protocanon. They also include...
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  • Tanakh is the name of a musical collective from Richmond, Virginia as well as a reference to the music produced by the group. The collective was formed...
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    collection (the Ketuvim) contains psalms, proverbs, and narrative histories. "Tanakh" is an alternate term for the Hebrew Bible composed of the first letters...
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  • polyglot codices (multi-lingual books) containing both the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the New Testament, as well as extracanonical works. The study of biblical...
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  • Tanakh Ram (Hebrew: תָּנָ״ךְ רָ״ם) is a translation of the Tanakh from Hebrew and Aramaic texts to Modern Hebrew. Published by RAM Publishing House Ltd...
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    afterlife being the ultimate destination. A similar phrase also exist in the Tanakh (Genesis 3:19): עָפָ֣ר אַ֔תָּה וְאֶל־עָפָ֖ר תָּשֽׁוּב׃, Dust you are, and...
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    Biblical cosmology is the account of the universe and its laws in the Bible. The Bible was formed over many centuries, involving many authors, and reflects...
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    Naomi (Classically /ˈneɪ.oʊmaɪ, neɪˈoʊmaɪ/, colloquially /neɪˈoʊmi, ˈneɪ.oʊmi/; Hebrew: נָעֳמִי, Modern: Noʻomī, Tiberian: Nā‘omī) is Ruth's mother-in-law...
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    Part of a series on the Bible Canons and books Tanakh Torah Nevi'im Ketuvim Old Testament (OT) New Testament (NT) Deuterocanon Antilegomena Chapters and...
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    The Ta'anakh cult stand was found in the ancient city of Ta'anakh, near Megiddo, in Israel. It dates back to the 10th century BCE and has various images...
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    Various forms of witchcraft and divination are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh or Old Testament), which are expressly forbidden. Laws prohibiting various...
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  • Jah (section In the Tanakh)
    Society or NJPS Tanakh and World English Bible includes "Jah" (Yah in the Lexham English Bible, Complete Jewish Bible, the NJPS Tanakh and the World English...
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  • Abrahamic deity as the protagonist of the Hebrew Tanakh or Christian Bible Old Testament. The Tanakh and the Old Testament contain the same books, but...
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  • מַלְאָכִים mal’āḵīm) are supernatural beings that appear throughout The Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), rabbinic literature, apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, Jewish...
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    Zion (Hebrew: צִיּוֹן, romanized: Ṣīyyōn, LXX Σιών) is a placename in the Tanakh, often used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel...
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  •  'spokespersons') is the second major division of the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh), lying between the Torah (lit. 'instruction') and Ketuvim (lit. 'writings')...
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  • and 4th centuries BCE, which are in both the Jewish Tanakh and Christian Old Testament. In the Tanakh, they appear as a single book, "The Twelve", which...
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  • lyrics are from the first verse of Psalm 133, which is translated by the JPS Tanakh as "How good and how pleasant it is that brothers dwell together." Hine...
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    Leviathan (section Tanakh)
    and the earth. The Leviathan specifically is mentioned six times in the Tanakh. Job 41:1–34 is dedicated to describing him in detail: "Behold, the hope...
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    VII, Lines 440–464. Luck, p. 57. cf. Tanakh, Torah, Devarim 18:9–12. cf. Tanakh, Torah, Vayikra 20:27. cf. Tanakh, Nevi'im, Shmu'el Aleph 28:3–25 Archived...
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  • points out that servile and hired work was not scorned by the Jews of the Tanakh (Sacred Scriptures, so-called "Old Testament"). Instead, such work was protected...
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    first printing by Daniel Bomberg in the 1520s. His commentaries on the Tanakh—especially his commentary on the Chumash (the "Five Books of Moses")—serves...
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  • Am ha'aretz (section Tanakh)
    often pluralized עמי הארצים amei ha-aratzim or עמרצים amaratzim. In the Tanakh, the term "the people of the land" refers to a special social group or caste...
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