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</style><title>Hebrew Bible - Wikipedia</title><div class="original-url">Greetings Ohio Communities Faith, a resource to some and education to others. Blessings…<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Bible">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Bible</a><br><br></div><div id="article" role="article" style="-webkit-locale: "en"; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="system exported">
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<div class="page" style="text-align: start; word-wrap: break-word; max-width: 100%;"><h1 class="title" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.95552em; line-height: 1.2141em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; text-align: start; display: block; max-width: 100%;">Hebrew Bible</h1><div role="note" style="font-style: italic; max-width: 100%;">"Tanakh" redirects here. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Tanakh_(disambiguation)" title="Tanakh (disambiguation)" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Tanakh (disambiguation)</a>.</div><p style="max-width: 100%;">In addition to the Masoretic Text, modern scholars seeking to understand the history of the Hebrew Bible use a range of sources.<sup style="max-width: 100%; line-height: 1; font-size: 0.75em;"><span class="converted-anchor" style="max-width: 100%;">[3]</span></sup> These include the Septuagint, the <a href="/wiki/Syriac_language" title="Syriac language" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Syriac language</a> <a href="/wiki/Peshitta" title="Peshitta" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Peshitta</a> translation, the <a href="/wiki/Samaritan_Pentateuch" title="Samaritan Pentateuch" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Samaritan Pentateuch</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls" title="Dead Sea Scrolls" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Dead Sea Scrolls</a> collection and quotations from rabbinic manuscripts. These sources may be older than the Masoretic Text in some cases and often differ from it.<sup style="max-width: 100%; line-height: 1; font-size: 0.75em;"><span class="converted-anchor" style="max-width: 100%;">[4]</span></sup> These differences have given rise to the theory that yet another text, an <a href="/wiki/Urtext_(biblical_studies)" title="Urtext (biblical studies)" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Urtext</a> of the Hebrew Bible, once existed and is the source of the versions extant today.<sup style="max-width: 100%; line-height: 1; font-size: 0.75em;"><span class="converted-anchor" style="max-width: 100%;">[5]</span></sup> However, such an Urtext has never been found, and which of the three commonly known versions (Septuagint, Masoretic Text, Samaritan Pentateuch) is closest to the Urtext is debated.<sup style="max-width: 100%; line-height: 1; font-size: 0.75em;"><span class="converted-anchor" style="max-width: 100%;">[6]</span></sup>
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