Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Bible refers to the common portions of the Jewish and Christian canons. It is a bias-free term that is preferred to both Tanakh and Old Testament when discussing the text in academic writing. See e.g. section 4.3 of the Style Manual for the Society of Biblical Literature. Hebrew here refers to the Hebrew language, not to the Hebrew people.
See:
- Tanakh for the history of the Hebrew Bible and its interpretation within the Jewish tradition.
- Old testament for the history of the Hebrew Bible and its interpretation within the Christian tradition.
- Bible and Tanakh for the differences between these two versions of the text, or the much more detailed Biblical canon.
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