The Septuagint is a Koine Greek translation of the Tanakh from the third and second centuries BC it largely overlaps with the Hebrew Bible.Ĭhristianity began as an outgrowth of Second Temple Judaism, using the Septuagint as the basis of the Old Testament. The Masoretic Text is the medieval version of the Tanakh, in Hebrew and Aramaic, that is considered the authoritative text of the Hebrew Bible by modern Rabbinic Judaism.

' Tanakh' is an alternate term for the Hebrew Bible composed of the first letters of those three parts of the Hebrew scriptures: the Torah ('Teaching'), the Nevi'im ('Prophets'), and the Ketuvim ('Writings'). It is called the Torah in Hebrew and the Pentateuch (meaning five books) in Greek the second oldest part was a collection of narrative histories and prophecies (the Nevi'im) the third collection (the Ketuvim) contains psalms, proverbs, and narrative histories. The earliest contained the first five books of the Bible. The religious texts were compiled by different religious communities into various official collections. Believers in the Bible generally consider it to be a product of divine inspiration, but the way they understand what that means and interpret the text varies. The collection of materials that are accepted as part of the Bible by a particular religious tradition or community is called a biblical canon. These texts include instructions, stories, poetry, and prophecies, and other genres. The Bible is an anthology, a compilation of texts of a variety of forms, originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all of which, or a variant of which, are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, and many other religions.

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