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Hebrew Bible

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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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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 • Dec. 11, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2025

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 • Apr. 10, 2025

Austen Hartke realized he was transgender in seminary, where he was studying the Hebrew Bible; he came out as soon as he graduated.

From New York Times • May 17, 2024

William thought about the texts that he and I had read together—the great Rashi, who had shown our bishops the errors in our translations of the Hebrew Bible.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz