Definitions

1. Pentateuch is a name given to the first five books of the Bible - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
2. The Pentateuch was supposedly written down by Moses, with Joshua writing the sixth book (Book of Joshua).
3. The Pentateuch is a complex work - a combination of various strands of materials from various sources arising from the oral traditions of Israel over time.
4. The Pentateuch is believed to have been written by Moses (though this is debated among theologians) and represents the Jewish Bible or Torah. (Web site)
5. The Pentateuch is considered to be the part the best executed, while the book of Isaiah appears to be the worst. (Web site)

Ancient Israel

1. In the Chronicles the pattern according to which the history of ancient Israel is represented is the Pentateuch, i.e.

Jewish Scriptures

1. This constitutes a third canon of Jewish scriptures, the Samaritan Pentateuch or Torah.

Planet Terraformed

1. Explore the Fading Suns universe: Roam the strange fields of Pentateuch, a planet terraformed with occult laws. (Web site)

Pentateuch Printed

1. A remnant of this custom is to be found in the letter samekh at the beginning of the sedarim in the Pentateuch printed in Venice in 1518 (Mikra'ot Gedolot). (Web site)

Rashi Commentary

1. The city is renowned for being the location of the first dated Hebrew book, a Rashi commentary on the Pentateuch.

Joshua

1. The Samaritans accepted only the 5 books of the law, with apparently Joshua (see SAMARITAN PENTATEUCH).

Rabbinic Judaism

1. Rabbinic Judaism was based on the Moses legend, including Moses receiving directly from God the Torah (Pentateuch). (Web site)

Masoretic Text

1. A complete English translation of the Masoretic text based on the 1917 JPS Tanakh with differences from the Samaritan Pentateuch highlighted.
2. This translation also highlights every place where the Samaritan Pentateuch differs from the Masoretic text.

Ashburnham Pentateuch

1. Folio 6r of the Ashburnham Pentateuch contains the story of Cain and Abel.

Hexateuch

1. The Pentateuch can be contrasted with the Hexateuch, a term for the first six books of the Bible.
2. This has led some scholars to propose that the proper literary unit is that of the Hexateuch rather than the Pentateuch.

Entire Pentateuch

1. But nowhere in the Bible is it specifically stated that Moses wrote the entire Pentateuch.
2. This chapter is not only the conclusion of Deuteronomy, it is the conclusion of the entire Pentateuch. (Web site)
3. However, there have long been questions concerning Mosaic authorship of the entire Pentateuch or his actual role in its composition.

Land

1. But as a story the Pentateuch seems incomplete without Joshua's account of the conquest of the promised land.

Massoretic Text

1. Also, the age for most of the generations after the flood is an extra 100 years in both the Septuagint and the Samaritan Pentateuch over the Massoretic text. (Web site)

Identical

1. The purification rituals are identical in the Pentateuch and the older Vendidad. (Web site)
2. The Vendidad purification rituals are identical in the Pentateuch and the—older— Vendidad. (Web site)

Critics

1. The conditions laid down by the critics as prerequisites to literature do not prove that the sources of the Pentateuch must be post-Mosaic.

Basis

1. The JEDP theory takes the explainable differences in the Pentateuch and invents an elaborate theory that has no basis in reality or history.

Part

1. The author then quotes other critics who refuse to ascribe to Moses a part, at least, of the Pentateuch.

Earliest

1. The earliest recorded oral law may have been of the midrashic form, in which halakhic discussion is structured as exegetical commentary on the Pentateuch. (Web site)
2. The earliest manuscript of this Syriac Vulgate is a Pentateuch dated A.D. 464; this is the earliest dated Biblical manuscripts; it is in the British Museum. (Web site)

Preaching

1. Chapter 5: Communicating the Genres of the Pentateuch - Vogt talks about how to go about teach and or preaching the two main genres he has been covering. (Web site)

Whole

1. Cline prefers to let the sources play a minor role while he asks what the theme of the whole Pentateuch is about.
2. Although it originally contained all five books of the Pentateuch, it is now missing the whole of Deuteronomy as well as sections of the other five books. (Web site)

Theme

1. I try to order books I find recommended or spoken highly of by other scholars and that is how I ran across The Theme of the Pentateuch.
2. Clines links the theme of promise to the forward movement and anticipation of the Pentateuch. (Web site)
3. Thus, the theme of Old Testament offering was part of the paschal cycle of lessons in the milieu in which the Ashburnham Pentateuch was written and used.

Meaning

1. At last the magnum opus has appeared under the title The Meaning of the Pentateuch: Revelation, Composition and Interpretation. (Web site)
2. His commentary on the Pentateuch is marked by acumen and deep insight into the continuity of its meaning. (Web site)

Leviticus

1. It contains the Pentateuch except for the book of Leviticus. (Web site)

Language

1. Nahmanides's commentary on the Pentateuch is the first book printed in any language in Lisbon.

Variants

1. As readers will note, many of the stories in the Pentateuch are very brief, often ten verses or less, and embedded with variants or even contradictions.

Gospels

1. A third question concerns authorship – mainly, the authorship of the Gospels and of the Pentateuch.

Messiah

1. From before the days of Messiah until today, Jewish people have read from and discussed a prescribed portion of the Pentateuch each week.

Readings

1. There are important differences between the Hebrew and the Samaritan copies of the Pentateuch in the readings of many sentences.
2. Because the Hebrew Calendar varies from year to year, two readings are sometimes combined so that the entire Pentateuch is read over the course of a year.

Christianity

1. In Christianity, the Pentateuch forms the beginning of the Old Testament.

Tradition

1. In Rabbinic Judaism, the Torah comprises both the written Torah (Pentateuch) and a tradition of oral law, much of it codified in later sacred writings. (Web site)
2. Both tradition and Sacred Scripture support the premise that the original text of the Pentateuch was intended to be read and studied as a single book. (Web site)
3. To further confirm that this tradition is faithful to the original, we will look at the Septuagint and the Samaritan Pentateuch. (Web site)

Sources

1. It offers an in-depth exploration of the concept, quoting and commenting on sacred Jewish texts from the Pentateuch (Five Books of Moses) and other sources.
2. There are examples in the Pentateuch of other known sources, for instance, "the Book of the Wars of the LORD" (Num 21:14) that may have been used.
3. He applied the idea of two sources to the rest of Genesis, Exodus, and finally to most of the Pentateuch.

Christ

1. There is also abundant testimony that the rest of the books were translated before Christ as well though later than the Pentateuch.

Covenant

1. The plan that unifies the different elements forming the building blocks of the Pentateuch includes: promise, election, deliverance, covenant, law and land.
2. The Book of the Covenant (Ex., xx, 24-xxiii, 19) too must have existed before the other sources of the Pentateuch. (Web site)

Daniel

1. Daniel, moreover, comes at the end of the Prophets, and Job either after Ruth or after the Prophets (not after the Pentateuch).

Hand

1. On the other hand, the Pentateuch ascribes to Moses the literary authorship of at least four sections, partly historical, partly legal, partly poetical. (Web site)
2. Here the Pontiff would receive a copy of the Pentateuch from the hand of Rome's rabbi. (Web site)
3. As far as textual criticism is concerned, the Pentateuch provides what is probably the most obvious example of adaptations made by the hand of man.

Scroll

1. The talmudic sages debate whether the Pentateuch was given scroll by scroll or as a complete sealed Torah. (Web site)

Judges

1. D in the Pentateuch is restricted to the book of Deuteronomy, although it continues into the subsequent books of Joshua, Judges and Kings.

Rabbis

1. To have let them serve as a prologue to Christianity was a cruel revenge on the part of the Rabbis, who knew better what their Pentateuch meant" (SD 1:11). (Web site)

Kabbalah

1. The fundamental work of Kabbalah is the Bible, and more specifically the Pentateuch (Torah). (Web site)

Question

1. Finally, there is the question as the theological certainty of the thesis maintaining the Mosaic authenticity of the Pentateuch.

Word

1. The rabbi is not an occupation found in the Torah (i.e the Pentateuch) as such; the first time this word is mentioned is in the Mishnah. (Web site)
2. For the Law, If by that word we understand the entire Pentateuch, is no literary unity, and no simple historical quantity.

Israel

1. The Pentateuch and Joshua relate how Israel became a nation and came to possess the Promised Land. (Web site)

Reader

1. It should open up the study of the Pentateuch in new ways for many a reader, and I welcome the project most warmly.

Passages

1. Some scholars claim the Torah (Pentateuch) shows evidence of monolatrism in some passages.

Edition

1. Various portions of this translation appeared separately, an edition of the Pentateuch appearing in the same year (1553) and at Ferrara.
2. The Pentateuch in this edition is followed by the Five Scrolls.

Preface

1. There is no Preface to the other books of the Pentateuch. (Web site)
2. Back to Methuselah (A Metabiological Pentateuch) is a 1921 series of five plays and a preface by George Bernard Shaw. (Web site)

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1. Judaism > Prophecy > Prophets > Moses
2. Prophecy > Prophets > Moses > Torah
3. Religion > Christianity > Bible > Old Testament
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