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תנ"ך

Tanakh — the Hebrew Bible

The canon — Torah, Prophets, Writings — composed across a millennium in Hebrew (with passages in Aramaic); the foundation text of everything in this atlas.

Hebrew (עברית, Ivrit)JerusalemNehardeaReviewed 2026-07-30

The Tanakh gathers Torah, Prophets, and Writings — the library composed across the biblical centuries in the Land of Israel and the Babylonian exile, in Biblical Hebrew with extended passages in Aramaic (Ezra, Daniel). It is the foundation text of every language, route, and tradition in this atlas: the exile psalm quoted below is the same text the Babylonian-exile migration record cites as the first diaspora’s own words.

The English excerpt is the public-domain JPS 1917 translation.

עַל־נַהֲרוֹת בָּבֶל שָׁם יָשַׁבְנוּ גַּם־בָּכִינוּ בְּזָכְרֵנוּ אֶת־צִיּוֹן

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. — Psalm 137:1 (JPS 1917, public domain)

Public-domain text via Sefaria — attribution preserved.

Where was Tanakh composed?

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  • Tanakh (full text)Excerpt from the public-domain JPS 1917 translation; attribution preserved.
Reviewed 2026-07-30
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