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Tanakh, Old Testament, Hebrew Bible
Jews call it the Tanakh, Christians the Old Testament, and academics the Hebrew Bible. All three names refer to the same collection of writings.
One corpus, many names.
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Jacob Wright usually calls it simply 'the Bible,' and recommends Robert Alter's three-volume translation with commentary as the best English rendering.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. xiv
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