pentateuch in English

noun

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the first five books of the Hebrew Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy). Traditionally ascribed to Moses, it is now held by scholars to be a compilation from texts of the 9th to 5th centuries bc.

Use "pentateuch" in a sentence

1. * See also Pentateuch

2. * Moreover, it is a part of the Pentateuch, meaning “five rolls” or “fivefold volume.”

3. One of the principal Targums, the “Targum of Onkelos” on the Pentateuch, is rather literal.

4. Genesis is the first book of the Pentateuch (an Anglicized Greek word meaning “five rolls” or “fivefold volume”).

5. Joel Baden works widely in the field of Hebrew Bible, with special attention to the literary history of the Pentateuch

6. (Jer 9:25, 26) Later, the Samaritans that adhered to the requirements set out in the Pentateuch were also circumcised.

7. But their acceptance of the Pentateuch, by and large, gave the Samaritans the basis for believing that a prophet greater than Moses would come.

8. Jewish Corporeality did not endorse images –Christian spirituality promoted corporeal images The Pentateuch had already reflected an iconoclast attitude in prohibiting the making of images[30]

9. We have been discussing the Torah, or Pentateuch, and now we are moving on to the section of the Bible that is referred to as the Prophets.

10. The figure of Aaron as it is now found in the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible, is built up from several sources of traditions

11. Garcia, in his celebrated treatise on the origin of the Indians, Adduces as a partial argument in favor of the Mexicans being descended from the Jews, the similarity which many of their laws bore to those of the Pentateuch

12. The answer is written in Gemara and Poskim: Our Rabbis have taught: All the restrictions that apply to the mourner hold equally good of the Ninth of Ab It is also forbidden [thereon] to read the Law (Pentateuch) {they rejoicing the hearth}, the Prophets, and the Hagiographa or to study Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash, Halachoth, or Aggadoth; he may, however, read such parts of Scripture which he

13. Del´i-um (בּדלח, bedhōlaḥ): The word occurs twice in the Pentateuch: (1) in Genesis 2:12, in conjunction with gold and onyx, as a product of the land of HAVILAH (which see), and (2) in Numbers 11:7, where the manna is likened to this substance in appearance: "The appearance thereof as the appearance of Bdellium."The latter comparison excludes the idea of bedhōlaḥ being a precious