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The Hebrew Bible (Biblia Hebraica) refers to the Jewish Tanakh. Questions about specific texts should only be tagged with the name of the text. This tag is reserved for questions related to a collection of texts within the Hebrew Bible rather than only one individual text within this collection.

The Hebrew Bible (which is often referred to by Biblical scholars using the Latin term Biblia Hebraica) refers to the Tanakh (Jewish textual collection).

Questions about specific texts should only be tagged with the name of the text. This tag is reserved for questions related to a collection of texts within the Hebrew Bible rather than only one individual text within this collection. The final, authoritative written form of the Hebrew Bible is usually refered to as the .

The texts considered to comprise the Hebrew Bible are all extant Hebrew, Aramaic, Coptic, Greek, and Latin manuscripts of the following texts:

Torah (Books of Moses)

  • Genesis
  • Exodus
  • Leviticus
  • Numbers
  • Deuteronomy

The Samaritan Pentateuch is also included.

Nevi'im (Prophets)

  • Joshua
  • Judges
  • Kingdoms (I - IV)
    • Samuel (I & II)
    • Kings (I & II)
  • Isaiah
  • Jeremiah
  • Ezekiel
  • Twelve Prophets
    • Hosea
    • Joel
    • Amos
    • Obadiah
    • Jonah
    • Micah
    • Nahum
    • Habakkuk
    • Zephaniah
    • Haggai
    • Zechariah
    • Malachi

Kethuvim (Writings)

  • Psalms
  • Proverbs
  • Job
  • The Song of Songs
  • Ruth
  • Lamentations
  • Ecclesiastes
  • Esther
  • Daniel
  • Ezra-Nehemiah / Esdras (I & II)
  • Chronicles / Paraleipomenon (I & II)

Care should be taken to clearly refer to relevant sections of the Hebrew Bible as chapter and verse sections as well as the order of content is not consistent between many translations, manuscripts, and critical texts.

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Are the Hebrew Scriptures in general to be understood as continuous discourses or fragmental remains of much larger collections?

I often encounter the idea that the Hebrew Scriptures, or at least many of them, are summaries or fragments of larger works. However, considering the value and tight control that the Jews seem to have had in retaining the accuracy of them, it seems…
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The funerary custom of burning corpses

It seemed to be a matter of great ignonimy to be burnt upon one’s death or burnt to death:1 “From this it may be concluded that the burning of the human body was looked upon with horror.”2 Footnotes         1 Gen. 38:24; Lev. 20:14, 21:9; Jos.…
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What did Moses see on the back side of God?

What did Moses see on the back side of God? Does seeing the back of God mean seeing God? "Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen.” (Exodus 33:23 ESV)
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Saul not knowing Davids father?

According to 1.Sam.16:18 Saul heard that the boy -David- who came to play for him was a son of Jesse in Bethlehem. We also read that Saul sent messagers to Jesse with the request to sent him his son (verse 19), and in verse 22 we read that Saul told…
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Do Genesis 7 and 8 imply a month was 30 days long?

Young's Literal Translation Genesis 7:11 ... In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens…
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What is the difference between the two Hebrew words nâtsar and ‛ârûm

In Genesis 3:1 the word "subtil" is translated from the Hebrew word "‛ârûm" referring to the serpent and in Proverbs 7:10 the word "subtil" is translated from the Hebrew word "nâtsar" referring to a harlot. (The word 'subtil' is from the King…
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Understanding simple words in the Bible

How can I understand the meaning of the word "saw" in Gen 6:2, Gen 9:22, and "flesh" in Gen 6:12? Apparently these words are more than they seem. I am hesitant to indicate research because a former question was closed as "off topic" for mentioning…
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BHS inscription between Psalms and Job

What is the significance of the inscription in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia between the Psalter and the book of Job and what is the proper translation?
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Why did Phinehas's wife name her child after a historical event?

In 1 Samuel chapter 4, KJV we read: 21 "And [Phinehas's wife] named the child I-chabod, saying The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband" (In the preceding verses, Israel…
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Does Jesus give license to break or to validate non canonical Scriptures?

In a certain context Jesus speaking to the religious leaders makes the following remark “-and Scripture cannot be broken—” ‭‭John‬ ‭10:35‬ ‭ The NT has texts that are used either to support doctrine and theology by Jesus and NT authors or quoted…
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Was manna physical or spiritual?

The Bible says God gave the children of Israel manna in the desert for forty years, six days a week. “Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.The people…
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Resting in Genesis 2:2 (ESV) and the concept of Tikkun

The English Standard Version (ESV) of Genesis 2:2 states: "And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done." This verse describes God resting after creation. The…
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When a passage references days and nights (e.g. seven days and seven nights), is it to be taken literally as X complete days and X complete nights?

1 Samuel 30:12 KJV - And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights. Job 2:13 KJV - So they…
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Are there any other books contemporary to the Old Testament early books?

Are there any other books written in the Hebrew contemporary to the books from Genesis to the Second Chronicles and the book of Job, or all these books is all we have?
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(1 Chronicles 3:21) verse "...the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah...". Unclear?

From my perspective, the (1 Chronicles 3:21) verse is Unclear. I'm confused as who are the sons referenced when said verse mentions "...the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah...". Most of the other verses…
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