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Hrsanei Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

The bible

Hi.

The holy books of the Jewish and christians are called bible, therfore how do we distinguish these two books?

Do we say jewish bible and christian bible?

Thanks for your time and help
  

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Bible simply means "book", so it is a label, essentially saying THE Book (as in the ultimate book, being considered the word of ***). The Christian Bible consists of the Old Testament and the New Testament, each being a collection of documents relating to Jewish (Old Testament) and Christian (New Testament) traditions, practices, and beliefs. The Jewish bible is known as the Tanakh.

— Free_spirit

  • Bible simply means "book", so it is a label, essentially saying THE Book (as in the ultimate book, being considered the word of ***).
  • The Christian Bible consists of the Old Testament and the New Testament, each being a collection of documents relating to Jewish (Old Testament) and Christian (New Testament) traditions, practices, and beliefs.
  • The Jewish bible is known as the Tanakh.
  • Judaism has several other books that play important parts of their traditions and beliefs.
  • org/wiki/Tanakh There are language links to many languages in the left side menu.
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Bible simply means "book", so it is a label, essentially saying THE Book (as in the ultimate book, being considered the word of ***). The Christian Bible consists of the Old Testament and the New Testament, each being a collection of documents relating to Jewish (Old Testament) and Christian (New Testament) traditions, practices, and beliefs.

The Jewish bible is k
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Thanks for your response and help
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free_spiritThe Jewish bible is known as the Tanakh
This is certainly correct, but not everyone is familiar with this term. You are more likely to hear "The Hebrew Bible," "The Torah" or "The Five Books of Moses" to refer to what Christians call "The Old Testament." (The Tanakh encompasses the Five Books of Moses as well as other writings -- Prophets, Psalm
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Thanks khoff.

Your answer was complete and informative.

Since I grew up in Islamic country , I have no information about these things .

I encountered several words concerning the prophets' books, but having checked the definitions I got more confused.

I have heard torah, Gospel, Bible , hebrew bible , tanakh, old testament and new testament . But I would be gra
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Salaam/Shalom, hrsanei!

Basically, the Christian Bible consists of two parts. "The Old Testament" includes most of the Jewish Bible, most importantly the Five Books of Moses (Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Leviticus and Deuteronomy). "The New Testament" refers to the part that started with Jesus. The first four books of the New Testament are called the Gospels, written by four of Jesus's
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