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    The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (/tɑːˈnɑːx/; Hebrew: תָּנָ״ךְ‎ Tanaḵ), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (/miːˈkrɑː/; Hebrew: מִקְרָא‎ Mīqrāʾ‍), is the canonical...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    afterlife being the ultimate destination. A similar phrase also exist in the Tanakh (Genesis 3:19): כִּֽי־עָפָ֣ר אַ֔תָּה וְאֶל־עָפָ֖ר תָּשֽׁוּב, Dust you are...
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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 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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    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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    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‘ŏmī) 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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  • Orthodox author, Tanakh scholar, and educator. She is Rosh Beit Midrash at Matan Women's Institute for Torah Studies and a lecturer in Tanakh at Herzog College...
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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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  • 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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  • Hidon HaTanakh also spelled Chidon HaTanach or Jidon Hatanaj [among Spanish and Portuguese speaking Jews]) is a worldwide competition on the Tanakh (Jewish...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    German-born Israeli Orthodox rabbi. He was one of the world's leading experts on Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), and especially of the text of the Aleppo Codex. His first...
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  • and the Ketuvim (the "Writings"). The Hebrew Bible is also known as the Tanakh, an acronym from the initial Hebrew letters of these three words; and as...
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    of the Old Testament accepted by Protestant churches, which is only the Tanakh (the canon of the Hebrew Bible), is shorter than that accepted by the Orthodox...
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