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Tanakh

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Hebrew Bible.

Tanakh

Tanakh is an acronym derived from the first Hebrew letter of each of the Masoretic Text's three traditional divisions: the Torah (תּוֹרָה, Tōrāh, lit.'Instruction' or 'Teaching' or 'Law'), the Nevi'im (נְבִיאִים, Nĕvīʾīm, 'Prophets'), and the Ketuvim (כְּתוּבִים, Kĕtûvīm, 'Writings').