"Holy" texts

  • Hebrew Bible: Tanakh is an acronym of the first Hebrew letter of each of the Masoretic Text’s three traditional subdivisions: “Written” Torah (‘Teaching’, also known as the Five Books of Moses), Nevi’im (‘Prophets’) and Ketuvim (‘Writings’)—hence TaNaKh.
  • talmūd : primary source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology. This includes:
    • Mishnah, a written compendium of Rabbinic Judaism’s Oral Torah
    • Gemara (circa year 500 CE), an elucidation