Hebrew Bible

noun

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

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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.

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

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Conservative Christians overwhelmingly support Israel, in part because of their fondness for the peoples of the Hebrew Bible.

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Yet the Hebrew Bible shows that Hebrews were as terrified of existential uprootedness as Blaise Pascal or any Christian king.

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