2. The word Hebrew comes from the word ( 'ibri), meaning
“to go over” OR “to go cross”, hence “ Hebrew” would
be one who crossed over or one who went from place to
place, a nomad, a wanderer. In the Bible the word
Hebrew becomes and ethnic term used interchangeably
with “Israelite”. On the other hand, the English word
"Bible" is from the Greek phrase ta biblia,"the books," an
expression Hellenistic Jews used to describe their sacred
books several centuries before the time of Jesus.
Christians adopted the phrase "Old Testament" to refer
to these sacred books they shared with Jews. Since Jews
used the word “Tanahk” whereas Christians use “Old
Testament”, modern Scholar comes with the term
“Hebrew Bible” to avoid confessional terms of Old
Testament and Tanahk.
The text of the Hebrew Bible is more than 2
millenniums ago
