Hebrew Bible Essay

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Hebrew Bible is also known as Mikra or TaNaKh, which is an acronym that refers to the traditional Jewish division of the Bible into the Torah the teaching, Nevi'im the prophets and Ketuvim the writings. It is the founding document of the people of Israel that gives descriptions of its origins, history and visons of how a just society should be. This paper will give an explanation of how the Hebrew Bible literature forms religion in humanity. The main objective is to show how human life relates to the stories of the Hebrew Bible and how faith obtains eternity and God is the one who created all these.

Generally the Hebrew Bible gives an account of how God dealt with the Jews being his chosen people who referred to themselves as Israel. After an account of the creation of the world by God and the coming up of human civilization, the first six books are a narration of not just the history but also the genealogy of the people of Israel to how the conquered and settled in the promised land under the terms of the covenant between God and Abraham.
This covenant was renewed by Isaac, Abraham's son and his grandson Jacob and later on by Moses. The seven books that follow continue this story of the Promised Land that gives a description of people's constant apostasy and also the breaking of the covenant. They also show the establishment and development of monarchy so as to counter this as well as warnings given by prophets of an impending divine punishment and the need for Israelites to repent. The last eleven books are on poetry, theology and more history (Routledge, 2014)

The Hebrew bible is mainly a monotheistic interpretation of human life and the universe as work of God's creation which gives a basic structure of ideas that gave rise to Judaism, Christianity and also Islam that came about from Jewish and Christian tradition that see Abraham as a patriarch.

The Hebrew bible states that God reveled himself to man in the Book of Genesis; he spoke with Adam an Eve….....

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