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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Altaschith is a Hebrew word meaning "destroy not". It was used as the title of Psalms 57, 58, 59, and 75. It seems likely that this was the name of a song to whose melody the psalms would have been chanted.The content, which closely corresponds to the Protestant Old Testament, does not include the deuterocanonical portions of the Roman Catholic or the Anagignoskomena portions of the Eastern Orthodox Old Testaments. The term does not imply naming, numbering or ordering of books, which varies with Biblical canon.The term is an attempt to provide specificity with respect to contents, while avoiding allusion to any particular interpretative tradition or theological school of thought. It is widely used in academic writing and interfaith discussion in relatively neutral contexts meant to include dialogue among all religious traditions, but not widely in the inner discourse of the religions which use its text.
