What are the similarities between the Torah and the Holy Bible?
The Hebrew Bible, roughly interprets to what Christians call the “Old Testament.” It comprised of the Torah more specifically the first five books: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, the books of the Prophets Joshua, Judges, I and II Samuel, I and II Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, and the Writings like Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and I and II Chronicles. This collection of books is also known by the Hebrew acronym Tanakh, made from the first letters of the Hebrew words for each collection: the Torah, Nevi’im, and Ketuvim. The Hebrew Bible was the work of many writers, composing over a period of centuries. Traditionally, the Torah was ascribed to Moses and the Psalms to King David. The Torah in particular, and the Hebrew Bible as a whole, form the ethical and legal core of Judaism from its origins to the present. After the canonization of scriptures became the formative basis for Jewish practice and identity.