The books of the Old Testament, showing their positions in both the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible, shown with their names in Hebrew ) and Christian Bibles.

The Old Testament is called by the Jews the Tanakh, an acronym formed by combining the initials of the three sections by which the Jews divide the text: the Torah, or Law ( the Pentateuch ), the Nevi ' im, or Prophets, and the Ketuvim, or Writings or Hagiographa ( with vowels added, as Hebrew is written with a consonantal script, TaNaKh ).

It is not clear why the present order of the books in the Tanakh does not match the order given in the Talmud ( nor does it match that of the Christian Old Testament ).

The Book of Ruth (; Sephardic, Israeli Hebrew: ; Ashkenazi Hebrew: ; Biblical Hebrew: Megilath Ruth " the Scroll of Ruth ") is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible, Tanakh, or Old Testament.

The Book of Esther is a book in the Ketuvim (" writings "), the third section of the Jewish Tanakh ( the Hebrew Bible ) and is part of the Christian Old Testament.

The Masoretic text places Joel between Hosea and Amos ( the order inherited by the Tanakh and Old Testament ), while the Septuagint order is Hosea – Amos – Micah – Joel – Obadiah – Jonah.

The Book of Micah is a prophetic book in the Tanakh / Old Testament, and the sixth of the twelve minor prophets.

The book of Habakkuk is a book of the Tanakh ( the Old Testament ) and stands eighth in a section known as the 12 Minor Prophets in the Masoretic and Greek texts.

While animal sacrifice was part of the practice of ancient Judaism, the Tanakh ( Old Testament ) and Jewish teaching portray human sacrifice as one of the evils that separated the pagans of Canaan from the Hebrews (, ).

Traditionally, both Judaism and Christianity believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, for Jews the God of the Tanakh, for Christians the God of the Old Testament, the creator of the universe.

Outside of the Roman Catholic Church, the term deuterocanonical is sometimes used, by way of analogy, to describe books that Eastern Orthodoxy, and Oriental Orthodoxy included in the Old Testament that are not part of the Jewish Tanakh, nor the Protestant Old Testament.

The Book of Genesis ( from the Latin Vulgate, in turn borrowed or transliterated from Greek γένεσις, meaning " origin ";, Bereʾšyt, " In beginning "), is the first book of the Hebrew Bible ( the Tanakh ) and the Christian Old Testament.

Nevertheless, as recorded in the Tanakh (" Old Testament " Bible ), in defiance of the Torah's teachings, the patron god YHWH was frequently worshipped in conjunction with other gods such as Baal, Asherah, and El.

Jonah (; or ; Greek / Latin: Ionas ) is the name given in the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh / Old Testament ) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC, the eponymous central character in the Book of Jonah, famous for being swallowed by a fish or a whale, depending on translation.

In addition, although the order of the books in the Protestant Old Testament ( excluding the Biblical apocrypha ) and the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ) differ, the contents of the books are very similar.

Within the Tanakh ( commonly called the Old Testament in Christianity ), is used to teach that the spirit within humans did not pre-exist, but was created within each person in the womb:

The Song of Songs of Solomon, commonly referred to as Song of Songs ( Hebrew: Šîr haŠîrîm, LXX Greek: Aisma Aismatōn, Vulgate Latin: Cantĭcum Canticōrum ), or Song of Solomon, is a book of the Old Testament — one of the megillot ( scrolls )— found in the last section of the Tanakh, known as the Ketuvim ( or " Writings ").

The Vulgate is usually credited as being the first translation of the Old Testament into Latin directly from the Hebrew Tanakh, rather than the Greek Septuagint.

Zephaniah () or Tzfanya () is the name of several people in the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh.

* Elijah, a 9th-century BC prophet found in the Old Testament ( Tanakh ) of the Bible.

Starting at the age of four, he attended a religious school where the teaching was solely from the Tanakh, i. e., Old Testament, in Hebrew.

The modern name, Kinneret, comes from the Old Testament or Hebrew Tanakh " sea of Chinnereth " in and, and spelled " Chinneroth " in.

In the Tanakh ( also referred to as the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible ), Dagon is particularly the god of the Philistines with temples at Beth-dagon in the tribe of Asher ( Joshua 19. 27 ), in Gaza ( Judges 16. 23, which tells soon after how the temple is destroyed by Samson as his last act ).

The mentions in the Tanakh tend to be historical or prophetic, while New Testament references are more likely figurative, or cryptic references possibly to pagan Rome, or some other archetype.

In the early Christian experience the New Testament was added to the whole Jewish Tanakh, which after Jerome's translation tended more and more to be bound up as a single volume, and was accepted as a unified locus of authority: " the Book.

Akkad is mentioned once in the Tanakh — Book of Genesis 10: 10: And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar ( KJV ).

It is first mentioned in the Tanakh and the Bible as the place where the matriarch Rachel died and was buried " by the wayside " ( Gen. 48: 7 ).

Jehoram ( meaning " Jehovah is exalted " in Biblical Hebrew ) was the name of several individuals in the Tanakh.

* It is the first holiday mentioned in the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ), and God was the first one to observe it ( Genesis.

He was fully conversant with the Talmud and Tanakh ( Jewish Bible ), and worked as a pulpit rabbi and teacher in the 1960s.

Malachi was the writer of the Book of Malachi, the last book of the Neviim ( prophets ) section in the Jewish Tanakh.

Although not well defined in the Tanakh, Sheol in this view was a subterranean underworld where the souls of the dead went after the body died.

According to the Tanakh, Saul was the son of Kish, of the family of the Matrites, and a member of the tribe of Benjamin, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel.

This was chiefly done by Aaron ben Moses ben Asher, in the Tiberias school, based on the oral tradition for reading the Tanakh, hence the name Tiberian vocalization.

During that period, however, " Tanakh " was not used.

According to the Talmud ( Bava Batra 14b-15a, Rashi to Megillah 3a, 14a ), much of the contents of the Tanakh was compiled by the Men of the Great Assembly ( Anshei K ' nesset HaGedolah ), a task completed in 450 BCE, and have remained unchanged since that date.

Traditionally, the text of the Tanakh was said to have been finalized at the Council of Jamnia in 70 CE, although this is uncertain.

Thus, in Judaism, the " Written Instruction " ( Torah she-bi-khtav תורה שבכתב ) comprises the Torah and the rest of the Tanakh ; the " Oral Instruction " ( Torah she-be ' al peh תורה שבעל פה ) was ultimately recorded in the Talmud ( lit.

In the language of the Tanakh, he was " over the tribute ," i. e., the levy or forced labor.

Shittah-tree was used in the Tanakh to refer to the acacia ( Hebrew: שטה ).

In the same period, the council of sages known as the Sanhedrin may have codified and canonized the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh ), from which, following the return from Babylon, the Torah was read publicly on market-days.

According to the Tanakh, Solomon's Temple was built atop the Temple Mount in the 10th century BCE and destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE, and the Second Temple completed and dedicated in 516 BCE.

The teachings of the Torah and Tanakh reveal the Israelites's familiarity with human sacrifices, as exemplified by the near-sacrifice of Isaac by his father Abraham ( Genesis 22: 1-24 ) and some believe, the actual sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter ( Judges 11: 31-40 ), while many believe that Jephthah's daughter was committed for life in service equivalent to a nunnery of the day, as indicated by her lament over her " weep for my virginity " and never having known a man ( v37 ).