Torah,Prophets,Writing

• Jewish sacred texts


  The Tanakh and Talmud
• Sections of the Tanakh

  • Torah
  • Nevi'im
  • Kesubim
• Tanakh


  The three sections (Torah, Nevi'im and Kesubim) together form the Old Testament
• Torah


  The five books of Moses (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy), also referred to as the Pentateuch
• Prophets (Nevi'im)


  People chosen by God to speak for God, warning people of what will happen if they do not live in God's ways
• Books of the Prophets

  • Joshua
  • Judges
  • Kings I & Kings II
  • Samuel
  • Isaiah
  • Jeremiah
  • Ezekiel
  • Hosea
  • Joel
  • Amos
  • Obadiah
  • Jonah
  • Micah
  • Nahum
  • Habbakuk
  • Zephania
  • Haggai
  • Zecharia
  • Malachi
• Writings (Kesubim)


  Books that give a history of the Jewish people and tell of their troubled times, including Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah and Chronicles 1&11