Lessons On The Tanakh (Hebrew Bible)

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Isaiah 34:16; “Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read!”

Welcome to our lessons on the Tanakh (Tanach)!

The Tanakh is the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament. Every letter, every word, every phrase and every sentence is inspired by YHWH. Think about this: if you read a translation of the Tanakh, however honest or good that translation, you are not reading the inspired text, but rather a man-made translation of the inspired text of the Tanakh. A translation is subject to errors, misunderstanding, interpretation, things which cannot be interpreted, and many similar problems. Either which way, you lose the beauty and accuracy of the original inspired Hebrew text. But if you read the Tanakh, there are no errors, no interpretation and no translation issues. You will read the inspired words exactly as YHWH intended. Now, if you love the Hebrew Scriptures, why would you settle for anything less than the inspired text itself?

With that thought, here is a list of the lessons on the Tanakh which are currently available.

This group of lessons provides you with overall information about the Tanakh. Why would you want to study the Tanakh? What's wrong with a translation? What books are in the Tanakh? What is its structure? What divisions are there? How is the text of the Tanakh laid out? If you want to know more about the Tanakh in general, these are the lessons you should start with.
 

We have a group of lessons about the Treasures of the Tanakh. Suitable for beginners and experts alike, this group of lessons introduces you to many of the amazing and wonderful things about the Tanakh. If all you read is a translation of the Hebrew Bible, these are features of the Tanakh which you will be completely unaware of. There are acrostics, hidden codes, plays on words, poetry, and much more.
 

This group of lessons explains all you need to know about Hebrew manuscripts of the Tanakh. What manuscripts are there? What is the difference between them? Which are the most important? What do they look like? Which manuscripts are used for which editions of the Tanakh?
 

This group of lessons discusses what printed editions of the Hebrew Bible are available, and what differences there are between them. There are hundreds of years of Hebrew Bibles to choose from! Are they all the same? Which Hebrew Bibles are the best? What features do all these Hebrew Bibles have?
 
 

This group of lessons discusses the Massorah of the Tanakh. What is the Massorah? What information is provided? How can you make use of it? Discover a world that is almost ignored by students of the Tanakh today.
 
 

This group of lessons discusses one particular area of the Massorah – the Hebrew accents or Teamim in the Tanakh, which are used for cantillation (singing) of the sacred text. Find out the meaning of the accents, their purpose in dividing up the Hebrew text, and much more.
 
 

And finally, here are some great resources to help you to study the Tanakh.
 

Make sure you also look at our lessons on learning Hebrew, the  Hebrew alphabet and Hebrew vowels.

Our sister site AllThingsAramaic.Com is dedicated to learning Aramaic. Aramaic is very closely related to Hebrew, and is used in Biblical Aramaic, the Targumim (the Aramaic translations of the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible), the Talmud, the Zohar, as well as some Jewish prayers. There is also the Aramaic Old Testament or Peshitta Tanakh (a translation of the entire Tanakh) and the Aramaic New Testament or Peshitta.

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