WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -In Christianity. Many Christians refer to the Hebrew Bible as the Old Testament, the prophecy foretelling the advent of Jesus Christ as God’s appointed Messiah. Christian tradition employs the Hebrew Scriptures to legitimize the gospel of Jesus in the New Testament as the natural extension of the Abrahamic covenant.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jews call the Hebrew Scriptures the “Tanakh” and Christians call them the “Old Testament.” It doesn’t take long to see that Jews and Christians view the same set of books differently and interpret these scriptures in unique and at times conflicting ways.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Hutter Dodecaglott Bible The New Testament was first translated into Hebrew by Elias Hutter in his Polyglott edition of the New Testament in twelve languages: Greek, Syriac, Hebrew, Latin, German, Bohemian, Italian, Spanish, French, English, Danish and Polish, at Nuremberg, in 1599, 1600, in two volumes.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Hebrew Bible developed during the Second Temple Period, as the Jews decided which religious texts were of divine origin; the Masoretic Text, compiled by the Jewish scribes and scholars of the Early Middle Ages, comprises the Hebrew and Aramaic 24 books that they considered authoritative.