Hebrew Bible


Hebrew Bible with targum in Aramaic, eleventh century manuscript. It presents the text of the Book of Exodus (12: 25-31) in Hebrew characters.

Hebrew Bible or Hebrew Bible is a generic term to refer to books of the Bible originally written in ancient Hebrew and Aramaic. It fits very closely with the Jewish concept Tanakh and the Christian Old Testament (particularly in the version of some Christian (Evangelical) groups, which do not include the deuterocanonic parts of the Old Testament and the orthodox Anagignoskomena).

The term Hebrew Bible does not imply any kind of denomination, numbering or ordering of books, which is very variable. (See Biblical Canon.)

In the scholarly study of today, it is common to refer to the three editions of the book called Bibla Hebrea edited by Rudolf Kittel. In this context, the abbreviation BH, or BHK (K by Kittel), or (where they refer to the different editions), BH1, BH2 and BH3 is frequent.

The first two editions appeared between 1906 and 1913 respectively; the difference between them is slight, except for a list of errors in the second. The second edition was reprinted several times. Reproduced the Hebrew text found in the third edition has been replaced by the Hebrew Bible Stuttgartensia.

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