The Bible as a multi-religious text

About the Hebrew Bible

Judaism’s ‘Bible’, the Tenakh ( = TNK in Hebrew), consists of Torah (sometimes rather misleadingly called the Law), Nevi’im (Prophets) and Ketuvim (Writings). Torah is central. The Tenakh contains the same ‘books’ as the Christian Old Testament, although the order in the collection decorative link to... was changed by the Christian canon and the number of books in the Christian Old Testament appears greater than in the Tenakh owing to splitting texts. The Tenakh is studied and read in Hebrew by Orthodox Jews and in Hebrew or the vernacular by Reform Jews and other liberal Jews. Jewish textual interpretation has proved as diverse as the patterns in Christianity.

The books of the Hebrew Bible

Torah
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy

Nevi’im (Former Prophets)
Joshua
Judges
Samuel [all one book, unlike the Christian Bible]
Kings [all one book, unlike the Christian Bible]

Nevi’im (Later Prophets)
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Ezekiel
Minor Prophets (all the rest, e.g. Amos, in one book instead of separate)

Ketuvim (Writings)
Song of Songs
Ruth
Lamentations
Ecclesiastes
Esther

Ketuvim (Later Writings)
Daniel
Ezra-Nehemiah (one book)
Chronicles (one book)
Job
Psalms
Proverbs