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'''''Hebrew Bible''''' refers to the textual [[canon]] of the Jewish [[Tanakh]], which contains books that were originally written mainly in [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]].  (There are two books, [[Book of Daniel|Daniel]] and [[Book of Ezra|Ezra]], that have parts in [[Aramaic]], but even they are written in the same Hebrew script.)

''See the main article:'' [[Tanakh]]. 

The '''Hebrew Bible''' includes the same books as the [[Protestant]] [[Old Testament]], but not the [[deuterocanonical]] portions of the [[Roman Catholic]] and [[Eastern Orthodox]] Old Testament.  The term '''Hebrew Bible''' does not impose a particular ordering of its books (as opposed to [[Tanakh]] and the [[Old Testament]], each of which orders the books in different ways).

Section 4.3 of the Style Manual for the [[Society of Biblical Literature]] recommends the use of the term "Hebrew Bible" as a bias-free term in preference to the term "Old Testament" in academic writing.  Other examples of recommended bias-free terms include the use of "Second Temple period" instead of "intertestamental period" and "deuterocanonical literature" instead of "Apocrypha".

====References====
* Adapted from the [[Wikipedia]] article, "Hebrew Bible" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Bible December 31, 2003