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Jewish Culture

Scriptures

  • Talmud: The canonical oral law which helps interpret the laws of the Tanakh. It is the collection of sayings by the rabbis and Jewish scholars.
    • Mishnah: How to apply the commandment of the Torah
    • Gemara: Clarifies the doubts in Mishnah in more detail
  • Tanakh: The Hebrew scriptures (An acrostic made of the three subsets of it)
    • Torah: Law, five books of Moses
      • Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy
    • Nevi'im: Prophets, eight books of prophets
      • Yehoshua (Joshua), Shoftim (Judges), Shmuel (I & II Samuel), Melakhim (I & II Kings), Yeshayah (Isaiah), Yirmyah (Jeremiah), Yechezqel (Ezekiel)
      • The Twelve (treated as one book)
        • Hoshea (Hosea), Yoel (Joel), Amos, Ovadyah (Obadiah), Yonah (Jonah), Mikhah (Micah), Nachum, Chavaqquq (Habbakkuk), Tzefanyah (Zephaniah), Chaggai, Zekharyah (Zechariah), Malakhi
    • Ketuvim: Writings, eleven books of writings
      • Tehillim (Psalms), Mishlei (Proverbs), Iyov (Job), Shir Ha-Shirim (Song of Songs), Ruth, Eikhah (Lamentations), Qoheleth (the author's name) (Ecclesiastes), Esther, Daniel, Ezra & Nechemyah (Nehemiah) (treated as one book), Divrei Ha-Yamim (The words of the days) (Chronicles)
  • Other writings: https://www.jewfaq.org/torah.htm
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