Hebrew Bible

== Influence on Christianity ==
{{Main|Development of the Christian Biblical canon}}
[[Christianity]] has long asserted a close relationship between the Hebrew Bible and [[New Testament]].<ref name="McGrath">McGrath, Alister, ''Christian Theology'', Oxford: Blackwell, 2011, pp. 120, 123. {{ISBN|978-1444335149}}.</ref> In [[Protestant Bible|Protestant Bibles]], the [[Old Testament]] is the same as the Hebrew Bible, but the books are arranged differently. [[Catholic Bible|Catholic Bibles]] and [[Eastern Orthodoxy#Bible|Eastern Orthodox Bibles]] contain books not included in the Hebrew Bible called [[Deuterocanonical books]].{{Sfn|Collins|2018|p=2–5}} Protestant English Bibles originally included the Deuterocanonical books, which Protestants term the [[Biblical apocrypha|Apocrypha]]. These books were removed when a slimmed-down [[King James Version]] was mass-produced by free [[Bible societies]] out of cost considerations.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Daniell |first=David |title=The Bible in English: its history and influence |date=2003 |publisher=Yale university press |isbn=978-0-300-09930-0 |location=New Haven (Conn.)}}</ref>

The ancient translations of the Hebrew Bible currently used by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches are based on the Septuagint, which was considered the authoritative scriptural canon by the [[History of Christianity|early Christians]].<ref>{{cite book |author-last=Tov |author-first=Emanuel |title=Hebrew Bible, Greek Bible, and Quran |publisher=[[Mohr Siebeck]] |year=2008 |isbn=978-3-16-151454-8 |location=[[Tübingen]] |doi=10.1628/978-3-16-151454-8}}</ref> The Septuagint was influential on early Christianity as it was the [[Koine Greek|Hellenistic Greek]] translation of the Hebrew Bible primarily used by the [[Christianity in the 1st century|1st-century]] [[Early Christian writers|Christian authors]].<ref>{{cite book |author-last=MacCulloch |author-first=Diarmaid |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7x4m20TRYzQC |title=Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years |publisher=Penguin Books |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-101-18999-3 |pages=66–69 |author-link=Diarmaid MacCulloch |access-date=2023-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408153758/https://books.google.com/books?id=7x4m20TRYzQC |archive-date=2023-04-08 |url-status=live}}</ref>