Hebrew Bible (term)

Hebrew Bible refers to the books of the Bible which were originally written mainly in Hebrew (though two books, Daniel and Ezra, have parts in Aramaic, which is written in the same Hebrew script). See the main article: Tanakh.

Hebrew Bible refers to the textual canon of the Jewish Tanakh. It includes the same books as the Protestant Old Testament, but not the deuterocanonical portions of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Old Testament. The term Hebrew Bible does not impose a particular ordering of its books (as opposed to Tanakh and the Old Testament, each of which orders the books in different ways).

Section 4.3 of the Style Manual for the Society of Biblical Literature recommends the use of the term Hebrew Bible as a bias-free term in preference to the term Old Testament in academic writing. Other examples of recommended bias-free terms include the use of Second Temple period instead of intertestamental period and deuterocanonical literature instead of Apocrypha.