The Bible is comprised of the Old Testament, or Hebrew Tanakh, and the New Testament literature. The Jewish scriptures are known in Hebrew as the Tanakh, and they are equivalent to the Protestant Old Testament. Protestants and Catholics accept the New Testament as part of the Bible, and in addition Catholics accept as part of the Old Testament the books known to Protestants as the Apocrypha, which are a set of late first millennium BC Jewish writings. Some