torah vs. bible?

Question

what are the similarities and differences between the torah and the bible? just wondering

Answer 1

the bible is based on the torah..at least the old testament..

Answer 2

The Torah is technically the first 5 books of the Bible; Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Since these are the first 5 books of the Bible, the Torah and the Bible are identical. The similarity ends there. Sometimes the Torah is used to refer to the entire Old Testament, and again, it is identical with the Old Testament of the Bible.
The only difference between Jewish and Christian holy writings are basically that the Jewish faith does not accept the New Testament of the Bible.

Answer 3

I don't think it should be Bible vs Torah. The Torah makes up the foundation for the Bible. The scriptures are not in conflict with each other. We can all look at the same thing. It says what it says. I may interpret it one way and someone else may interpret it another way. If so then any conflict is between he and I. But the scriptures do not conflict.

Answer 4

Well, first Christians were Jews, who copied a lot of thing from Torah to Christian bible aka old testament. Torah is the original and true holy book. There are five books of torah aka law of moses. I am Jewish and proud of it. When I was a kid a grew up in a former Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan and went to an elementary school there. Over there in russian literature class they made people read the christian bible. I read both so I know there are a lot of similarites.

Answer 5

Okay, here we go:
1) The Pentateuch is the first five (5) books of the Bible. Penta means five. (Imagine that!)
2) The Torah is the Old Testament Law given to Moses. Over time the Mishna came into being. The Mishna is the Jewish leaders interpretation of the Mosaic Law.

Answer 6

the torah is a term refering to 3 different things -- so you have to know what you mean:

1. the 5 books of moses
2. the entire of the written torah (including the prophets and later writings) -- this is a slangy way of using the term
3. the oral and written laws combined

Bible just means "book" and it could refer to whatever the speaker means. It might be the torah (usually, meaning 2) or it could include the gospels, apocrypha, book of mormon etc.

to use bible is to invite confusion

and oh, yeah...don't use Old testament -- it is insulting to jews as it implies that there is something obsolete or "old" about our texts and that isn't true.

Answer 7

the Torah is supposed to be the first 5 books of the old testament..therefore there should be no difference...Jesus commonly referred to the old testament as the Law and the prophets...and typically the first part of the old testament deals with the law and the rest ...prophets...it's just that the Torah was exclusively the law..god bless

Answer 8

The Torah is to the Old Testament as Milk is to ice cream. You need the one to create the other, but they are totally different in that you can't have ice cream without a lot of changes to the milk happening first.

Answer 9

The OLD TESTAMENT is the TORAH.
The New Testament came later.

True Christians study both because we are a GRAFTE IN part of that faith.
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The Seal of The Messianic Church


EVIDENCE THAT THE EARLIEST CHURCH IN EXISTANCE WAS JEWISH


One of the strongest evidences for this is the presence of many artifacts, clay pots, and lamps, which are engraved with what has come to be called the SEAL OF THE MESSIANIC CHURCH.

The seal has been copyrighted as " Seven Branched Candelabra/Star of David/Fish"

A book entitled "The Messianic Seal of the Jerusalem Church" by Reuven Efraim Schmalz and Raymond Robert Fischer has been published (Olim Publications, P.O. Box 2111,Tiberias, Israel.

Top of Seal see the Seven Branch Candelabra that stood before God in the Temple.

Below that, see the Star of David, which is from the 7th century BC. It is composed of two interlaced, equilateral triangles or DALTHA (D for David). "A star shall come forth from Jacob, and a scepter shall rise from Israel" Numbers 24:17.

Below the star is a fish which is an early Christian symbol in Israel. It was transported to Rome, and by 150 AD. Clement of Alexandria suggested to all his readers that they include the sign of a fish in their personal seals to identify them as Christians. Later the Greek spelling for the word fish ICHTHUS was incorporated. The first five letters of the words that spell "Jesus, Christ, God, Son, and Saviour."

In the Messianic Seal, the cross appears as the Hebrew letter TAW.

The artifacts were discovered in 1990 by Tech Oteeoos, a 90 year old Greek Orthodox monk, in the vicinity of the, what is believed to be, the original Church founded and pastored by James the Just, the half-brother of Jesus. When the actual grotto was excavated by Oteeoos, numerous inscriptions were found on the walls. The period of its use on Mount Zion could only have been from the crucifixion in 30 AD to 135AD.

Answer 10

The bible and torah share the 'Old Testement". The Torah included writings and "footnotes" where the bible has the new testement.

Answer 11

Have not heard of torah, but I have read the Bible from cover to cover.

I don't need to compair them, I have all the information I need for the rest of my life here on earth.