NOUN
- the Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the Torah and the Prophets and the Writings
How To Use Hebrew Scripture In A Sentence
- “To name the Nazi genocide ‘the Holocaust,’ ” the philosopher Gillian Rose warned, “is already to over-unify it and to sacralize it, to see it as providential purpose—for in the Hebrew scriptures, a holocaust refers to a burnt sacrifice which is offered in its entirety to God without any part of it being consumed.” Holocaust and Israel
- It is as if the word described the inner 'resource' of God, that which grounds and informs God's substantial, objective presence, a presence which is fleetingly uncovered in theophanies in the Hebrew Scriptures but whose full manifestation in the world awaits the last days. Addresses given to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Archbishop Michael Ramsey: I. Theology in the Face of Christ
- No Jew calls the Torah or Tanach the “Hebrew Scriptures.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Peretz on the Cairo Speech:
- These programs develop students' understanding of Hebrew Scripture and its commentary tradition, Jewish philosophy and ethics, liturgical traditions, counseling, and homiletics.
- The original of the word atone, or make atonement, In the Hebrew scripture, carries no such idea of expiation. The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.
- Midrash Mishle, on Proverbs; (11) Yalqut Shimeoni, a kind of catena extending over all the Hebrew Scriptures. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
- He's actually is quoting them from the Greek Bible, ; he probably doesn't read Hebrew; he's quoting them from Greek translations of Hebrew scripture.
- The average theologue is deep-read in Hebrew Scripture, but ignorant of the A B C of the tongue in which is written the Bible of man's soul. The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers
- Whatever you may think of the Hebrew Scriptures as theology or history, they are certainly sound as psychology: far sounder, in fact, than we parochial moderns (who like to believe that the study of the human mind began only with Freud) can admit without considerable abashment. Genesis 3
- Just as, in the sapiential books of Hebrew Scripture and the Apocrypha, God's wisdom makes it possible to understand the world as a coherent whole, so the conviction of covenant fidelity makes it possible to understand the history of Israel as a whole, as one story. A lecture given at a conference on 'The place of Covenant in Judaism, Christianity and Jewish-Christian relations' Centre for the Study of Jewish Christian Relations, Cambridge
