The English word "Bible" is from the Greek phrase ta biblia ... The Canonization of Hebrew Scripture. (Hamden, CT: Archon, 1976). Levenson, Jon. Sinai and Zion: An Entry into the Jewish Bible.

As a school child, I hated dikduk – biblical grammar. I remember the head-scratcher Ms. Korach taught us about personal pronouns. “She” in Hebrew is he. And “he” in Hebrew is hu. But, sometimes, Ms.

Dever: We want to make the Bible history. Many people think it has to be history or nothing. But there is no word for history in the Hebrew Bible. In other words, what did the biblical writers ...

In the words of James King West ... they used the already established Septuagint as their Bible. Using the Hebrew Scripture would have been as effective as using a Russian Bible to evangelize ...