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Nevi'im: Encyclopedia II - Names for books of Judeo-Christian scripture - Jewish perspective

For Jews, the Bible means... Torah - The five books of Moses. The word Torah literally means instruction. It is also called Chumash (Hebrew for "five") and Pentateuch (Greek for "five books"). Neviim - The books of the Prophets Ketuvim - All the other books of the Bible (literally: "Writings"). Judaism has traditional held that along with the Torah God revealed a series of instructions on how to interpret and apply the Torah. The Torah is re ...

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Nevi'im: Encyclopedia - Modern Orthodox Judaism

Modern Orthodox Judaism (or Modern Orthodox, also known as Modern Orthodoxy and sometimes abbreviated as "MO") is a movement within Orthodox Judaism that attempts to synthesize traditional observance and values with the secular modern world. It is broadly defined as the effort to adapt Orthodox Judaism to modernity and to avoid the social and/or cultural isolation which livi ...

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Modern Orthodox Judaism - Philosophy

Modern Orthodox Judaism - Comparison with other movements

Modern Orthodox Judaism - Right and Left

Modern Orthodox Judaism - Modern forms of textual criticism

Modern Orthodox Judaism - Criticism

Nevi'im: Encyclopedia - Torah study

Torah study is the study of Jewish religious texts by Jews for religious (as opposed to academic) purposes. This practice is present to an extent in all religious branches of Judaism and is considered of paramount importance. Torah study evolved over the generations, as lifestyles changed and new texts were written. Torah study - Origins. Torah study is counted amongst the 613 biblical mitzvot (commandments), finding its source in the verse (Deuteronomy 6:7): "And you shall teach it to your children, ...

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Nevi'im: Encyclopedia II - Names for books of Judeo-Christian scripture - Differences

Jews regard the "Old Testament" part of the Christian Bible as scriptural, but not the New Testament. Christians generally regard both the Old Testament and the New Testament as scriptural. The same books are presented in a different order in the Jewish Tanakh and the Christian Old Testament. The Torah/Pentateuch comes first in both. The Tanakh places the prophetic writings next (the word of God filtered through the minds of inspired men), then the historical material (the unseen action of God in history). The Old Testament inverts this order, since ...

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Nevi'im: Encyclopedia - Tanakh

Tanakh [תנ״ך] (also Tanach or Tenach) is an acronym that identifies the Hebrew Bible. The acronym is based on the initial Hebrew letters of each of the text's three parts: Torah [תורה] meaning one or all of: "The Law"; "Teaching"; "Instruction". Also called the Chumash [חומש] meaning: "The five"; "The five books of Moses". It is the "Pentateuch". Nevi'im [נביאים] meaning: "Prophets" Ketuvim [כתובים ...

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Nevi'im: Encyclopedia - Al Imran

Surat 'āl-Imrān (Arabic: آل عمران ) ("The Family of Amram") is the 3rd sura of the Qur'an with 200 ayat. Imraan, the Muslim equivalent of Amram, is the father of Mūsā (Moses) and Hārūn (Aaron) who was also spoken about in Judeo-Christian tradition. The chapter was revealed in Medina and is either the second or third in Medinan revelation. Almost all of it also belongs to the 3rd year of the Hijrah with the possible exception of verse 61 which mentions Mubāhalah and therefore might have been revealed during the vis ...

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Nevi'im: Encyclopedia - Biblical canon

The Biblical canon is an exclusive list of books written during the formative period of the Jewish or Christian faiths; the leaders of these communities believed these books to be inspired by God or to express the authoritative history of the relationship between God and his people (although there may have been secondary considerations as well). There are differences between Christians and Jews, as well as between different Christian traditions, over which books meet the standards for canonization. The different criteria for, and the process of, canonization for each community dictates what ...

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Biblical canon - Footnotes

Nevi'im: Encyclopedia - Bais Yaakov

Bais Yaakov or Beit Yaakov or Beth Jacob (literally "House [of] Jacob" in Hebrew) is a loosely-organized group of Orthodox Jewish day schools throughout the world for young Jewish females from religious families. The name comes from a verse in Exodus 19:3, in which the term "house of Jacob" is traditionally understood in Judaism to refer to the female segment of the Jewish nation. Orthodox Jewish males usually attend schools known as yeshivas. Bais Yaakov - History. The Bais Yaakov movement wa ...

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Bais Yaakov - Hasidic schools

Nevi'im: Encyclopedia - Judaism and Christianity

The article Judaism and Christianity compares and contrasts two closely related Abrahamic religions that are in some ways parallel to each other and in other ways fundamentally divergent in theology and practice. Whereas the article on the Judeo-Christian tradition emphasizes continuities and convergences between the two religions, this article emphasizes that Judaism and Christianity each have widely diverging views of their respective relationship to the other, and of elements they have in common, such as the Bible and God. Including:

Nevi'im: Encyclopedia - English translations of the Bible

The efforts of translating the Bible from its original languages into over 2,000 others have spanned more than two millennia. Partial translations of the Bible into English can be traced back to the end of the 7th century. Over 450 versions have been created over time. The following paragraphs describe the history of these efforts, focusing on the translation of the Bible into English. English translations of the Bible - Early translations. English translations of the Bible - Early Jewish translatio ...

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English translations of the Bible - Early translations

Nevi'im: Encyclopedia - Targum

A targum (plural: targumim) is an Aramaic translation of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) written or compiled in the Land of Israel or in Babylonia from the Second Temple period until the early Middle Ages (late first millennium). As translations, the targumim largely reflect rabbinic (i.e. midrashic) interpretation of the Tanakh. This is true both for those targumim that are fairly literal, as well as for those whi ...

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