Are the Christian and Jewish Bibles the same?

Answer 1

As others have correctly noted the Jewish Bible..the Tanakh ( Torah, Neviim, and Ketuviim) is the complete BIBLE for Judaism.


The Christian Bible is comprised of an ADAPTATION of the Jewish Bible with the books rearranged and many passages translated differently as well as having the text of the New Testament added to it.

Tertullian in the 3rd century renamed the reordered Hebrew Bible books the " Old Testament" to reflect Christian thinking and dogma from within the Christian Gospels that declared the covenant was done away with..and then named the Christian texts the " New Testament".

If you wish to compare the Tanakh and an Old Testament side by side, you can do so on your own. Here is a link to a complete Jewish Bible online. http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/63255/jewish/The-Bible-with-Rashi.htm

I'll be back with more...on this issue.

NO sect of Judaism and no one of the Jewish religion accepts Christian dogma or the Christian Bible as a holy text. Judaism is a messianic faith, but Christian groups since 1967 have begun calling themselves "messianic Jews", perhaps 15 percent of their adherents are of Jewish heritage by birth, but apostate to the Jewish religion.

Some Christians will claim that their "Old Testament" is based on the Septuagint ( The 70 ) Originally Referring to the FIVE books of Torah translated by 70 Jewish scholars and will assert that since it was " rabbis" ( anachronistic term since that term did not come into use until after 70 CE and the destruction of the Temple) translated the WHOLE " Old Testament" as they use it..that it is the same as the Jewish Tanakh.

Well this is a bit of a misnomer.

THE SEPTUAGINT, derived from the Latin word for "seventy," can be a confusing term, since it ideally refers to the third-century BCE translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek in Alexandria, Egypt. There is a complicated story, however, behind the translation and the various stages, amplifications, and modifications to the collection we now call the Septuagint.

The earliest, and best known, source for the story of the Septuagint is the Letter of Aristeas, a lengthy document that recalls how Ptolemy (Philadelphus II [285–247 BCE]), desiring to augment his library in Alexandria, Egypt, commissioned a translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek in 282 BCE Ptolemy wrote to the chief priest, Eleazar, in Jerusalem, and arranged for six translators from each of the twelve tribes of Israel. The seventy-two (altered in a few later versions to seventy or seventy-five) translators arrived in Egypt to Ptolemy's gracious hospitality, and translated the Torah (or Pentateuch: the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures) in seventy-two days.

Philo of Alexandria (fl. 1st c CE) confirms that ONLY the Torah was commissioned to be translated, Over the course of the three centuries following Ptolemy's project, however, other books of the Hebrew Scriptures were translated into Greek. Scholars have been unable to determine precise dates for when which book was translated when, and in what locale. It seems that sometimes a Hebrew book was translated more than once, or that a particular Greek translation was revised from a previous Greek edition without consulting the original Hebrew.

So it is clear that the Torah is the ONLY portion of the Greek Septuagint that is in fact, the only one archaeology exists to indicate it is the Jewish version of the Jewish scriptures.


Because so many of the books of Prophets and Writings were showing Hellenized influence, Jewish scholars and RABBIS..( now in the period of 90 CE by this time there were real rabbis ) met at a council of Jamnia and decided to determine the authenticity of many texts and weed out Hellenized language out of the many different texts of the books of the Prophets and Writings into a uniform canon. It is a grave sin to alter any holy text and the purpose of this council, unlike what some Christian apologists try to claim was to CREATE the Canon of the Hebrew Bible. It was to try to weed out corruption that had happened over the course of the previous three centuries before the council at Jamnia met.

The Tanakh had been completed prior to the second century BCE with the inclusion of the Book of Esther, but other texts were still being written ( The Books of Maccabees ) and primarily not in Hebrew or Aramaic but Greek. Partially because the texts had been considered "closed" in the days of Ezra and Neimiah, but also Because the Greek influence was so frowned upon, the story of the miracle of Hanukkah and the Jews victory over religious persecution were not also added to the canon that had already been established.

Answer 2

The Jewish Bible is the Christian Old Testament. The Jews call it the Tanahk which is explained below. The Christian New Testament although also written by Jews (with the exception of Luke & Acts) is not accepted by the Jews.

Tanakh (Hebrew: תנ״ך‎) (also Tanach, IPA: [taˈnax] or [təˈnax], Tenakh or Tenak) is an acronym that identifies the Hebrew Bible. The acronym is formed from the initial Hebrew letters of the Tanakh's three traditional subdivisions:
1.Torah (תורה), meaning "teaching" or "law," includes the Five Books of Moses. The printed form of the Torah is called "the Chumash" (חומש), meaning "five-part." The Torah is also known by its Greek name, "the Pentateuch," which similarly means "five scrolls."
2. Nevi'im (נביאים), meaning "Prophets." This division includes the books which, as a whole, cover the chronological era from the entrance of the Israelites into the Land until the Babylonian captivity of Judah (the "period of prophecy"). However, they exclude Chronicles, which covers the same period. The Nevi'im are often divided into the Earlier Prophets, which are generally historical, and the Later Prophets, which contain more exhortational prophecies.
3. Ketuvim (כתובים), meaning "Writings," are sometimes also known by the Greek title "Hagiographa." These encompass all the remaining books, and include the Five Scrolls. They are sometimes also divided into such categories as the "wisdom books" of Job, Ecclesiastes, and Proverbs, the "poetry books" of Psalms, Lamentations and Song of Solomon, and the "historical books" of Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles.

Answer 3

The Hebrew Bible is called the tanakh. Basically just the same texts as the Old Testament without the Apocrypha texts. The Hebrew Bible doesn't contain the New Testament as the majority of the jewish faith don't believe that Jesus Christ was/is the messiah.

Protestant Christian Bibles also differ from Catholic Christian Bibles in that the Catholic Bibles contain additional texts witch together as a group are called the Apocrypha.

Answer 4

Christian Bibles include the New Testament, which tells about Jesus. Jewish "Bibles", called the Torah, focuses mainly on the books of Moses (first 5 books of the Bible) and the Old Testament, since they think the Messiah hasn't come yet.

Answer 5

The Jewish "Bible" is the Torah. This contains the Holy Scripture of the Jewish peole upto, and slightly after, the life of the Christ Jesus. The Christian Bible contains most of the above, less the parts judged to be non-canonical, i.e. the Apocrypha, plus the 4 Gospels relating the life of Christ, and the various letters written by, or quoted from, the followers of Christ, the Apostles.
The 2 best books in the Torah are Isaiah and The Wisdom of Solomon. These encompass much of what the New Testament expounds.
The Koran, the muslim basis of scripture takes many parts of the above two histories, but, due to the lack of education of the prophet of islam, does not present an accurate truth, either of Jewish Holy Scripture, the Life of Jesus, or the Bible.

Answer 6

No. Not technically. The Jewish Bible is basically the Old Testament, which forms over half of the Christian Bible. The Christian Bible includes the New Testament, which is not considered the word of God by Orthodox Jews.

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible#Old_Testament

for full explanation. The Christian Old Testament contains the Hebrew Tanakh (including but not limited to the Torah), written in Hebrew, with the original material put in different order. The New Testament was originally written in Greek, and like the Old Testament evolved over many centuries. The Bible as most Christians know it wasn't finalized until the Council of Trent (1545-63), and even today there are some differences between Protestant and Catholic canon.

It's interesting. . . especially when you consider that many people there is but one Bible, just they think that their god is the only one.

Answer 8

No, they are profoundly different.

Jews have the Tanakh - what Christians refer to as the 'old' testament. This is comprised of the Torah (first five books of Moses) and various other writings.

Christians have the 'new' testament.

Jesus does not feature at all in the Tanakh; he is not relevant to Jewish theology at all.

Some Christians claim that Jesus is mentioned in the Tanakh, and that he is the messiah being referred to. But anyone who knows the accurate Hebrew knows this is not the case. Jesus did not fulfill ANY of the criteria that the Tanakh details as necessary for the Jews to accept someone as the real messiah.

Jews do not read the 'new' testament, as it has no relevance to Judaism.
Christians are familiar with the Torah, sometimes.

JUST TO CLARIFY

- No Jew accepts Jesus as messiah. In Judaism it is heresy to say that G-d can ever become flesh.

- so called 'messianic jews' are CHRISTIANS.

Nobody can be both Jewish AND Christian.

Can a person be both a meat eater AND a vegetarian?

No?

Same logic :)

Answer 9

no. the jewish "bible" is the Torah which is basically the old testament with a little more things in it, like Jewish books. The Christian Bible is the Old testament and the New Testament

Answer 10

I know Christians use Bibles, but Jewish people read scriptures from the Torah.