Knowra Bible Bible The Bible is a collection of sacred texts regarded as scripture in Christianity and, in different forms, Judaism. Its books span diverse genres, historical settings, and theological traditions.
Hebrew Bible : The collection of Jewish scriptures, also called the Tanakh, comprising the Torah, Prophets, and Writings. Its books form the shared scriptural foundation of Judaism and much of Christianity.
Documentary hypothesis : A scholarly theory that the Pentateuch was assembled from several distinct written sources. It offers one influential account of how the Bible’s first five books developed.
Textual criticism : The scholarly comparison of manuscript variants to reconstruct the earliest recoverable form of a text. It evaluates differences among surviving biblical manuscripts.
Christian liturgy : The structured forms of public worship practiced by Christian communities. Biblical readings, prayers, and narratives are central to many services.
Tanakh : The Jewish scriptural collection comprising the Torah, Prophets, and Writings. Its organization and boundaries differ from Christian Old Testament arrangements.
Old Testament : The portion of the Christian Bible that largely overlaps with the Hebrew Bible, arranged and interpreted differently across traditions. Christian canons include these scriptures, but their order and contents can differ from Jewish collections.
Dead Sea Scrolls : Ancient Jewish manuscripts discovered near Qumran, including biblical texts and writings from the Second Temple period. Their biblical manuscripts illuminate the transmission of texts before and around the time of early Christianity.
Bible translation : The rendering of biblical texts from their source languages into another language. Translation choices affect how biblical wording and meaning are conveyed.
Jewish liturgy : The prescribed prayers and ceremonies of Jewish communal worship. Scriptural readings and allusions organize major parts of Jewish worship.
Apocrypha : A name commonly given to Jewish books included in some Christian Bibles but excluded from others. These disputed books reveal differences among Christian biblical canons.
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