Hebrew Bible

American  

noun

1. the collection of sacred writings of the Jewish religion: the content of the Christian Old Testament is principally derived from the Hebrew Bible.

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Example Sentences

Since the colonial period the Hebrew Bible has shaped American political culture—as Rabbi Dov Lerner of Yeshiva University points out in his essay.

From The Wall Street Journal

The stories of the Hebrew Bible frequently relate to central questions of family life: where to settle, whom to marry, when to have children.

From The Wall Street Journal

He must know that Paul endorses the retributive justice of the Hebrew Bible, that the New Testament constantly quotes its antecedent’s portrayals of God’s compassion and liberality, and that Jesus’ atonement is meaningless apart from the law and the prophets.

From The Wall Street Journal

Carly L. Crouch, professor of Hebrew Bible and ancient Judaism at Radboud University in the Netherlands, contributed to this article.

From Los Angeles Times

In 1861, two weeks after South Carolina seceded from the Union, Morris Jacob Raphall, the Orthodox rabbi of B’nai Jeshurun synagogue in New York, gave a sermon proclaiming that the Hebrew Bible endorsed slavery.

From Slate