The term Hebrew Bible means books of the Bible that were originally written in Hebrew , and of which people agree that they belong to the Biblical canon . The Hebrew Bible ( also Hebrew Scriptures , Latin Biblia Hebraica ) is a term used by biblical scholars to refer to the Jewish Bible ( Tanakh ) . It takes its name from the fact that the Jewish Bible is composed mostly in Biblical Hebrew , with a few passages in Biblical Aramaic ( about half of the Book of Daniel , some parts of the Book of Ezra and a few other passages ) .