The Masoretic Text is the standard text of the Hebrew Bible for Judaism.
However, contemporary scholars seeking to understand the history of the Hebrew Bible’s text use a range of other sources. These include Greek and Syriac translations, quotations from rabbinic manuscripts, the Samaritan Pentateuch and others such as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Many of these are older than the Masoretic text and sometimes contradict it.
The version of the Bible that is most faithful to the original Hebrew text is generally considered to be the Jewish Publication Society (JPS) Tanakh.
The Jewish bible is commonly referred to as the old testament or the Tanakh or the Hebrew Bible.*The most important texts are:the Torah (first five books of the Bible)the Bible, also called the Tanakh (known to Christians as the old testament)The MishnahThe TalmudAnd various historical writings from scholars and rabbis, such as the Shulchan Aruch, the Mishneh Torah, and the Zohar.*Only the Christians refer to the Hebrew Bible as "the Old Testament".
The Old testament came from the Hebrew and Aramaic texts called the Massaratic text and the New testament came from the Greek text called the Received Text or the Majority text. Because this Bible was translated from these texts is why it is the most reliable.The Geneva Bible existed before the King James as well as a German Bible from Martin Luther and Tyndale's Bible in England.
They Hebrew Bible is the backbone of Judaism and the source for most Jewish laws and traditions.
Yes. The Masoretic text, which is the Hebrew Bible which Jews use today, contains the original text as revealed to Moses and the prophets, unaltered. This is shown by the fact that the Hebrew Bible is exactly the same the world over, including the most ancient examples available such as the Aleppo Tanakh (1000 years old) and the Dead Sea scrolls.
There is only one sacred text, the Hebrew Bible, of which the Torah is a part. There are several other writings of religious significance, such as the Talmud and Mishnah (writings of ancient rabbis). Only the Hebrew Bible is considered sacred by most Jews.
Study Bibles come in most translations of the Bible, including the King James Version, and are not a translation in themselves. They have notes and information to complement, illuminate, and expand upon the text of the Bible.
The most sacred part is the Torah, which is the first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible.
Most of the men were Hebrew.
Most of Hebrew History comes from the Bible, but there is some archeology as well.
Acts 8:37 is missing from some versions of the Bible because it is not found in the earliest and most reliable manuscripts of the Bible. This verse was likely added later by scribes and is not considered to be original to the text.
The Hebrew Tetragammaton or יהוה appeared over 7,000 times in the original Hebrew text as the name of God. Jehovah is the most acceptable English translation of the tetragammaton. Why has it been taken out by new bible versions? Maybe you can ask the writers themselves because there appears to be no concrete reason.