Word: pentateuch
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...Pentateuch) to his left arm and his forehead. He prays twice more each day, just before and just after sundown. He also reads from the Pentateuch for an hour daily. He tries to start writing by 9 o'clock, takes a lunch break at i, sometimes naps for a while, but gets back to his desk in time to turn out about 1,500 words a day. He rarely rewrites...
...every Jew must accept: 1) God's existence, 2) His unity, 3) His incorporeality, 4) His timelessness, 5) His approachability through prayer, 6) the validity of prophecy, 7) the superiority of Moses to all prophets, 8) the divine origin of the Law as revealed to Moses in the Pentateuch, 9) the immutability of the Law, 10) God's omniscience, 11) God's justice, 12) the coming of the Messiah, 13) the resurrection and human immortality...
...positions [of the "higher criticism"] which were widely held at the beginning of the 20th Century should be either utterly rejected, or at least corrected in the direction of a qualified conservatism ... It is no longer a matter of crucial importance to know whether or not Moses wrote the Pentateuch in its present form, whether or not Isaiah of Jerusalem was responsible for all the chapters of the book which bears his name, whether or not Matthew the publican composed the first canonical gospel...
Moses, his first Old Testament novel, should be another bestseller, even though it contains little to scandalize anybody. Novelist Asch does try to rationalize a few of the Pentateuch stories, e.g., the "pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night" becomes a pall of light-refracting dust raised by the tramping Israelites and their cattle. Yet nothing can dim the essential grandeur of Moses and his mission...
...Catholic editors: "The Pentateuch [first five books of the Bible] is substantially the work of Moses. It is a closely knit literary unit and was originally conceived as one work written for a single purpose." Say the Protestant editors: "The Pentateuch did not receive its final form until about 400 B.C. . . . The contents of Genesis preserve no hint as to the names of its authors and editors . . . Whoever the author of Genesis was, he must have had ancient sources at his disposal, for no one man could have been witness to all the events described. This means that the present...