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Pentateuch
Pentateuch Pen"ta*teuch, n. [L. pentateuchus, Gr. ?; ? (see Penta-) + ? a tool, implement, a book, akin to ? to prepare, make ready, and perh. to E. text. See Five, and Text.] The first five books of the Old Testament, collectively; -- called also the Law of Moses, Book of the Law of Moses, etc.

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- Numbers and Deuteronomy. In Christianity, the Torah is also known as the Pentateuch (/ˈpɛntətjuːk/) or the Five Books of Moses. In Rabbinical Jewish tradition...
- The Samaritan Pentateuch, also called the Samaritan Torah (Samaritan Hebrew: ‮ࠕࠦ‎‎‬ࠅࠓࠡࠄ‎, Tūrā), is the sacred scripture of the Samaritans. Written in...
- Look up Pentateuch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Pentateuch is the first part of the Bible, consisting of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers...
- The Ashburnham Pentateuch (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS nouv. acq. lat. 2334, also known as the Tours Pentateuch and the Codex Turonensis)...
- and the origins of the Jewish people. Genesis is part of the Torah or Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible. Tradition credits Moses as the Torah's...
- The composition of the Torah (or Pentateuch, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) was a process...
- understanding of the unity and authority of the Bible. The Torah (or Pentateuch, as biblical scholars sometimes call it) is the collective name for the...
- often abbreviated J, is one of the most widely recognized sources of the Pentateuch (Torah), together with the Deuteronomist, the Priestly source and the...
- The Damascus Pentateuch or Codex S****oon 507 is a 10th-century Hebrew Bible codex, consisting of the almost complete Pentateuch, the Five Books of Moses...
- The Making of the Pentateuch ("The Making of the Pentateuch: A Methodological Study", JSOT Press, Sheffield, 1987) by R. N. Whybray, Professor of Hebrew...