The “Old Testament” is the Christian term for the collection of scrolls in Hebrew and Aramaic that the Jewish community accepts as its Scriptures, and to which it often refers as the “Torah [or Law], the Prophets and the Writings,” or “Tanak” for short (from the initial letters of the three Hebrew nouns “Torah,” “Nebi’im,” “Ketubim”). Scholars often refer to them as the “Hebrew Bible.” The books were written at different times between about the eighth century and