The entire Old Testament is
called the Tanak. Where was the word Tanak derived from? Tanak means the Law/Torah, the Prophets/Nebim & the Writings/Kathabim. The first letters ‘T’ from Torah, ‘N’ from Nebim and ‘K’
from Kathabim form the word ‘Tanak’
Though the word ‘Tanak’ is an
acronym and not found in scriptures it reveals the scarlet thread of the
redemption of the Son throughout the scriptures of the scrolls of the ‘Tanak’
In a typical Yahudite
ancient printing of the Scriptures the arrangement is as follows:
•
The Torah/Law:
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy: 5 books
•
The Nebim/Prophets:
Joshua, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah-
Lamentations, Ezekiel- 6 books
(Jeremiah-Lamentations was one scroll). The 12 books (Hosea to Malachi) were
written on a single scroll as 1 scroll. Hence 6 +1 = 7
• The Kathabim/Writings: Psalms,
Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, Judges-Ruth,
Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah,
Chronicles: 10 books (Ruth- -Judges
was 1 scroll and Ezra-Nehemiah was 1 scroll)
Hence 5
+ 7 + 10 =22
These 22 scrolls were in
accordance with the 22 letters of the Abary.
Yahusha himself shows the
categorization of the ‘Tanak’ as Torah, the Prophets and the mazmur/songs which
they translated as ‘Psalms’. The Aramaic (Khabouris codex) says ‘mazmur’
Luke 24:44 Now He said to
them, “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that
all things which are written about Me in
the Torah of Moshe and the Prophets and the Psalms/mazmur H4210 must be
fulfilled.”
There
are two take-aways of the word ‘mazmur’ used by Yahusha in Luke 24:44 where
modern Hebraic translations use the word ‘Tahalyam’ instead.
1)
Since the word ‘mazmur H4210’ is consistently used in the
Aramaic texts of the Renewed Covenant it must mean book of Psalms and Yahusha
uses the word ‘Psalms’ instead of ‘Kathabim/Writings’ as the book of Psalms was
the longest scroll among the other scrolls in the writings/kathabim.
2)
Kathabim is seen as three fragments 1) poetic H4210 2)
instructions on life H4212 and 3) historic/numbering H4211.
‘Mazmur’
refers to the poetic, instructions and
historic or numbering scrolls of the ‘Kathabim’ as ‘mazmarah’ H4211 means ‘a
pruning hook (used for pruning vines/branches), ‘mazmar’ H4210 a song set to
music, ‘mazmarah’ H4212 means snuffers/tweezers which was used in animal
sacrifices.
All the
words have a root word ‘zamar’ which means ‘pluck, praise, sing, prune, music, singer,
a gazelle H2169’
The modern Hebrew
canonical scrolls have 24 scrolls as they divided Lamentations from Jeremiah
(which was one scroll) and placed it in the ‘Writings’ and they divided ‘Judges’
from ‘The Writings’ and placed it in ‘The Prophets’.
The Babylonian Talmud
also describes the books as 24 with their order which people turning to Yahuah
are following in order which can be found here in one of the Torah followers
site below:
They
list it as follows:
·
The
Law: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers & Deuteronomy- 5 books
·
The
prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the
twelve minor prophets (as 1 scroll)-
8 books
·
The
writings: Pslams, Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations,
Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles- 11 books
5 + 8 + 11 =24
This is
what Origen (AD 185-254) wrote about the 22 scrolls in line with the 22 letters
of the Abary language
‘’ Nor must we fail to
observe that not without reason the
canonical books are twenty-two, according to the Hebrew tradition, the same
in number as the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. For as the twenty-two letters
may be regarded as an introduction
to the wisdom and the Divine doctrines given to men in those
Characters, so the twenty-two inspired books are an alphabet of the wisdom of
God and an introduction to the knowledge of realities.’’
This is
what Jerome (AD 347-420) said
‘’ As, then, there are
twenty-two elementary characters by means of which we write in Hebrew all we
say, and the compass of the human voice is contained within their limits, so we reckon twenty-two books, by
which, as by the alphabet
of the doctrine of God, a righteous man is instructed in tender infancy,
and, as it were, while still at the breast.’’
This is
what Josephus (AD 37 to 100) wrote:
For we have not an
innumerable multitude of books among us, disagreeing from and contradicting one
another, [as the Greeks have,] but only
twenty-two books, which contain the records of all the past times; which are
justly believed to be divine; and of them five belong to Moses, which
contain his laws and the traditions of the origin of mankind till his death.
This interval of time was little short of three thousand years; but as to the
time from the death of Moses till the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, who
reigned after Xerxes, the prophets, who were after Moses, wrote down what was
done in their times in thirteen books. The remaining four books contain hymns
to God, and precepts for the conduct of human life. It is true, our history hath been written since Artaxerxes very
particularly, but hath not been esteemed of the like authority with the former
by our forefathers, because there hath not been an exact succession of
prophets since that time; and how firmly we have given credit to these books of
our own nation is evident by what we do; for during so many ages as have
already passed, no one has been so bold as either to add anything to them, to
take anything from them, or to make any change in them; but it is become
natural to all Jews immediately, and from their very birth, to esteem these
books to contain Divine doctrines, and to persist in them, and, if occasion be
willingly to die for them
Josephus maintains the
count to be 22 books but has got a different canonical order which he says that
their history has been written (referring to Babylonic Talmud) since Artaxerxes
(under captivity) very particularly, but has not been esteemed of the like
authority with the former by our forefathers.
In Christian Bibles and
those following the Christian pattern but are Messianic have 39 books because many
of the books are divided—Samuel becomes 1 and 2 Samuel, Chronicles becomes 1
and 2 Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah are separate books, as are Ruth and Judges.
Let’s
see the names of the books in line with the ancient way that they were
arranged:
Torah:
Law
Nebim: The Prophets
The book of the twelve (1 scroll):
Kathabim:
The writings
The above is the original canon which was later changed by
rearranging the scrolls as Rabannical Judaism follows the Babylonian Talmud and
Masoretes texts
The above
names will make sense when seen in the 22 letters of Abary besides each
name-See the image below:
Summary: There is
a discrepancy among those in seeing the arrangement of the canonical order of
the 22 scrolls of the ‘Tanak’. They place ‘Judges-Ruth’ in the ‘Major Prophets’
because Talmud tradition ties these books to be written by Samuel the prophet
and the last judge. Since Samuel is a Major prophet they say these books should
be among the Major prophets. But we see the things mentioned in the scroll of
Judges-Ruth are writings (instructions of life) which show us the behavior of
the people of Yasharal towards Alahym in rebellion against him, and Yahuah
causing the enemies to persecute them. When they cried out to Yahuah in
repentance he raised a judge to deliver them. There was no Major prophet in the
days of the Judges and Ruth and Samuel was not yet born. Samuel stood as prophet and the last judge
three generations after Ruth (who lived in the days of Judges) and was the one
who anointed Shaul as king over Yasharal when Yasharal demanded a king and when
Yahuah rejected Shaul to be king he anointed Daud/David as king.
We
know that Ruth is the great-grandmother of David.
a.
Three
generations from Ruth/Boaz to David:
1) "and to Salmon was
born Boaz, and to Boaz (through Ruth), Obed,
2) and to Obed was born Jesse,
3) and to Jesse, David." (Ruth
4:21-22)
Rth 4:18 And this is
the genealogy of Perets: Perets brought forth Hetsron.
Rth 4:19 And Hetsron
brought forth Ram, and Ram brought forth Amminaḏaḇ.
Rth 4:20 And Amminaḏaḇ brought forth Nahshon,
and Nahshon brought forth Salmon.
Rth 4:21 And Salmon brought forth Boʽaz, and Boʽaz brought forth Oḇĕḏ.
Rth 4:22 And Oḇĕḏ brought forth Yishai, and Yishai brought forth Dawiḏ.
One cannot separate Jeremiah-Lamentation because it was
written by Jeremiah himself who was a Major prophet before and during the
Yahudite captivity.
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