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Judaism's Bible is often referred to as the

'''[[Tanakh]]''', or '''[[Hebrew Bible]]''', which includes the sacred texts common to both the Christian and Jewish [[Biblical canon|canons]].<ref>See Patrick H. Alexander The SBL Handbook of Style. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers. ISBN 1-56563-487-X.</ref> The Christian Bible is also called the '''Holy Bible''', '''Scriptures''', or '''Word of God'''. The [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] and [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox]] Old Testament canons contain books not found in the Tanakh., but which were found in the Septuagint an early Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible.

More than 14,000 [[manuscripts]] and fragments of the [[Hebrew Language|Hebrew]] Tanakh exist, as do numerous copies of the [[Greek Language|Greek]] [[Septuagint]], and 5,300 manuscripts of the Greek New Testament, more than any other work of [[antiquity]].<ref>{{cite web