Making an issue out of what to call these texts might seem pedantic, but it is not. As we shall see, the “Hebrew Bible” and the “Old Testament” differ in more than name only. They comprise different numbers of books, which they place in a different order. (The ordering matters because it alters the context in which we understand the text; a book’s meaning can shift depending upon which books we read before and after it.) More significantly, the term “Hebrew Bible” suggests a corpus that is self-standing,