JEWISH SCRIPTURE


The Hebrew Bible, which is also called the Tanakh (/t???n??x/;[1] ????????pronounced [ta?na?] or the [t??nax]

These texts are almost exclusively in Biblical Hebrew, except for some Biblical Aramaic passages in the books of Daniel and Ezra.[2] The Hebrew Bible is also the textual source for the Christian Old Testament.

MOSES’ FIVE (5) BOOKS:


The first five books of the Hebrew Bible are the books of Moses.

Leviticus - Vayikra (וַיִּקְרָא, literally "And He called")

Numbers - Bemidbar (בְּמִדְבַּר, literally "In the desert [of]")

THE PROPHETS (OR NEVI’IM):


Neviim (/n?vi?i?m, n??vi??m/; Hebrew: ????????? N??î’îm, lit. “spokespersons”, (“Prophets”) is the second main division of the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh), between the Torah (instruction) and Ketuvim (writings). The Neviim are divided into two groups.

Hosea - Hôshēa‘ (הוֹשֵׁעַ)

Joel - Yô’ēl (יוֹאֵל)

Amos - ‘Āmôs (עָמוֹס)

Obadiah - ‘Ōvadhyāh (עֹבַדְיָה)

Jonah - Yônāh (יוֹנָה)

Micah - Mîkhāh (מִיכָה)

Nahum - Nakḥûm (נַחוּם)

Habakkuk - Khăvhakûk (חֲבַקּוּק)

Zephaniah - Tsĕphanyāh (צְפַנְיָה)

Haggai - Khaggai (חַגַּי)

Zechariah - Zkharyāh (זְכַרְיָה)

Malachi - Mal’ākhî (מַלְאָכִי)

 

THE WRITINGS (OR KETUVUM):


Ketuvim (???????????, “Writings”) consists of eleven books, described below. They are also divided into three subgroups based on the distinctiveness of Sifrei Emet and Hamesh Megillot.

Song of Songs - Shīr Hashīrīm (שִׁיר הַשִׁירִים)

Ruth - Rūth (רוּת)

Lamentations - Eikhah (אֵיכָה)

Ecclesiastes - Qōheleth (קֹהֶלֶת)

Esther - Estēr (אֶסְתֵר)

Daniel - Dānî'ēl (דָּנִיֵּאל)

Ezra - ‘Ezrā (עֶזְרָא) [incl. Ezra and Nehemiah]

THE SEVENTY (along with the above books):


The LXX was written in common Greek. It contains Israel’s Hebrew Bible translated from Hebrew and Aramaic. The first known translation of the Jew’s sacred texts into Greek is called the Seventy (which is Septuagint in Greek, and written LXX with Roman numbers).
The LXX is from the 3rd–1st centuries BC. 

Tobit or Tobias (Τωβίτ[d])

Wisdom [of Solomon] (Σοφία Σαλoμῶντος)

Baruch (Βαρούχ)

Letter of Jeremy (Ἐπιστολὴ Ἰερεμίου)

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Prayer of Azarias [aka. Song of the Three Children] (Vulgate Daniel 3:24–90)

Susanna (Vulgate Daniel 13)

Bel and the Dragon (Vulgate Daniel 14)

Prayer of Manasses (Προσευχὴ Μανασσῆ)

3 Maccabees (Μακκαβαίων Γʹ)

The preceding books composed “The 70”, which is LXX or Septuagint… and was the first Greek translation of Hebrew Scripture.

The first known translation of the Jew’s sacred texts into Greek is called the Seventy (which is  Septuagint in Greek, and written LXX with Roman numbers). 

 

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