What is the name of the Bible Jesus would have read?

Question

I want to know what language it was andwhat books was it he read. Did he only read the books of moses, or did he know more? I basically am looking for the oldest known Bible.

I already know of the Codex Sinaiticus and the Latin Vulgate.

Answer 1

The Bible then was in Scrolls. Biblaridia = little scrolls.

In one passage he reads from the "scroll of Isaiah."

Answer 2

The Tanakh (what it's called now).  The Torah is the first 5 books, the Mosaic books.  But Jesus referred to Moses (the book) and the Prophets.  And that's the Tanakh.

Answer 3

nabi (prophet) Iesa (Jesus) alayhi salaam (peace be upon him) did not read the Taurat he was taught by our 1Creator.

When Allah saith: O Jesus, son of Mary! Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst shape of clay as it were the likeness of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst heal him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than evident magic; (110)

read the Quran http://www.quranexplorer.com/quran/

Alhamdulillah (All Praises be to Allah)

Answer 4

I'm pretty sure he read the Torah and/or Tanakh (sp?)

Answer 5

The scriptures from Mathew to Revelation were written in Greek.  Jesus could have spoken to his disciple in either Hebrew or Greek depending on the needs of the crowds or group he was speaking to.

Sorry, I miss read the question.

Answer 6

Most of the gospellers quote from the Greek Septuagint.

The original OT was in Hebrew.

The Latin Vulgate came centuries after Jesus.

I've forgotten the details about Codex Sinaiticus  

Answer 7

Most like Jesus could not read or write

in those days people who could were called scribes

oldest known bible 300 AD is now on line

http://www.codex-sinaiticus.net/en/

Answer 8

I think he'd flick through all of them and say things like, "I can't believe you guys didn't get the jokes!"

Answer 9

The Torah.

Answer 10

As Jesus was Jewish it would be the Hebrew "Tanakh" which is basically the old testament in the Christian Bible.

It is written in Hebrew.

Most likely Jesus couldn't read or write, but as he was a carpenter at an early stage of his life he would have been very rich (As carpenters were payed a huge ammount of money 2000 years ago) and may have learnt how to read or write, or he got a scribe to read it to him.

Answer 11

The Torah.  There was no "Bible" as such in Jesus' time.

Answer 12

Jesus read the Tanakh, the Jewish bible. He also taught basic Torah (five books of Moses) which is where he got 'love thy neighbour' from.

Jesus died a practising Jew, remember. There was only one 'bible' around in that region, at that time: the Jewish Tanakh.

http://www.ajewwithaview.com

EDIT TO CORRECT earlier answers:

*sigh*

There WAS no 'old testament' when Jesus lived. The OT is the CHRISTIAN and Church approved version and MIStranslation of the Jewish Tanakh. The OT was not compiled until thousands of years after the Tanakh was already complete.

Jesus COULD read Hebrew and DID read Hebrew. All Jewish boys learned Hebrew and still do. How else could Jesus study the Torah, which we know he did because he blinking well QUOTES FROM IT!!!!!

EDIT

LOL LOL - I state the correct facts, and get a thumbs down. Guess someone out there can't cope with the fact that Jesus was Jewish and read Hebrew.

To the asker ********************

My pleasure :)

If you want a really accurate translation of the book that Jesus himself read - the Tanakh - then there are some great English translations. A good place to start: the STONE edition of the Torah.

Or the STONE edition of the Tanakh (Torah plus Prophets plus Writings)

I've also heard very good things about The Living Torah by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan.

:)

Answer 13

I think that bibles name is "Harry Potter Does Jesus"

Answer 14

Old testament or the Torah. But seriously you don't want to read it. God has anger problems at that time. Man slaughtering people.

Answer 15

The Old Testament was around then, and being Jewish he would have known it, though probably in Aramaic, that being the common language in that part of the world at the time.

Answer 16

"What is the name of the Bible Jesus would have read?"

There was no bible in Jesus' time; bible is just Paul's spin on his version of the legends of Mithra and Horus.

The oldest 'known' bible woulda been put together some time in the 400s

At best Jesus would have read Torah.

"The term "Torah" (Hebrew: תורה, "teaching" or "instruction," sometimes translated as "Law,"[1]) most commonly refers to the text of the Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch. It may also refer to the entirety of Judaism's founding legal and ethical religious texts.[2][3]"

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