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The Tanakh serves as the textual basis of the [[Christian]] [[Old Testament]], though the Old Testament is broken up into more books and ends in the Book of  [[Malachi]] since Christians believe that it predicts the arrival of [[Jesus]], and it leads into the [[New Testament]]. In contrast, the Tanakh ends at 2 Chronicles with the Israelites in the Holy Land.

The Tanakh serves as the textual basis of the [[Christian]] [[Old Testament]], though the Old Testament is broken up into more books and ends in the Book of  [[Malachi]] since Christians believe that it predicts the arrival of [[Jesus]], and it leads into the [[New Testament]]. In contrast, the Tanakh ends at 2 Chronicles with the Israelites in the Holy Land.

The Jewish community of Alexandria Egypt translated the Tanakh for Greek-speaking Jews of the [[diaspora]]. The resulting development of the Greek Tanakh is the Septuagint, which was the first century Bible of Jesus and the Apostles, who quoted from it as authoritative scripture. It contains books of scripture later rejected by the Palestinian rabbis in the second century in their determination and definition of the Tanakh of Israel. African Jews who used the Septuagint according to ancient tradition did not accept their decision as authoritative. The ''Beta Israel'' Ethiopian Jews are the only Jewish community today who still accept the Septuagint (minus [[Book of Sirach|Ecclesiasticus]]). The forty-six books of the Septuagint (including Ecclesiasticus) have been retained as the Old Testament of the Bible by the Orthodox and Catholic churches as part of Apostolic Tradition. The leaders of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century chose to accept the discernment of Palestinian Judaism as authoritative for determining the biblical canon of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, although Palestinian rabbinical authority utterly rejected Christianity, and by their definition of what constituted the inspired canon of the Tanakh automatically excluded all of the writings of the New Testament as false and uninspired.

The Jewish community of Alexandria Egypt translated the Tanakh for Greek-speaking Jews of the [[diaspora]]. The resulting development of the Greek Tanakh is the Septuagint, which was the first century Bible of Jesus and the Apostles, who quoted from it as authoritative scripture. It contains books of scripture later rejected by the Palestinian rabbis in the second century in their determination and definition of the Tanakh of Israel. African Jews who used the Septuagint according to ancient tradition did not accept their decision as authoritative. The ''Beta Israel'' Ethiopian Jews are the only Jewish community today who still accept the Septuagint (minus [[Book of Sirach|Ecclesiasticus]]). The forty-six books of the Septuagint (including Ecclesiasticus) have been retained as the Old Testament of the Bible by the Orthodox and Catholic churches as part of [[Apostolic Tradition]]. The leaders of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century chose to accept the discernment of Palestinian Judaism as authoritative for determining the biblical canon of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, although Palestinian rabbinical authority utterly rejected Christianity, and by their definition of what constituted the inspired canon of the Tanakh automatically excluded all of the writings of the New Testament as false and uninspired.

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