Word: pentateuchal
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...truth are nothing new; they have arisen from its earliest days. The Bible's first five books, the Pentateuch or Torah ("teachings"), had probably been canonized by Jews as the core of their sacred writings by the 5th century B.C. But even before that, there was growing up along with the Scriptures a body of oral interpretation eventually codified in the Talmud. It includes legal judgments known as halakhah and pious elaborations of biblical stories known as aggadah. Even in matters of law, however, the rabbis were not literalists. An "eye for an eye," for example, was not construed strictly...
...Testament, 19th century scholars all but canonized a theory that discerns four major documents that were woven together in the five books of the Pentateuch. Two of them, the "Yahwist" and "Elohist" strands, are labeled by the different
There were odysseys in which the Sirens are silent. Without paper, he conceived stories the intricacy and strangeness of which might have earned him a nod of approval from Dickens, the Pentateuch and Tolstoy of England. Before paper his imagination withdrew like a snail whose horns had been touched...
...Unity. Two of the commandments encompass the Law itself: a duty to study the Torah-Jewish teaching -and to keep Torah books (the Pentateuch, the Psalms and the Jewish prayer book) in the home. A third commands Jews to give charity, and as a reminder the Lubavitchers pass out charity boxes to be kept and filled in the home. A fourth commandment requires a householder to keep on each doorpost (except that of the bathroom) a mezuzah -a small container holding a handwritten parchment with a scriptural passage on the unity...
...Pentateuch, you dropped the idea of revelation altogether." But the consensus of the Covenant theologians is that God does reveal himself to man, and that he has, in one way or another, established some kind of special covenant with the Jews. For the traditionalist, that may mean the literal, biblical Covenant first made by God with the patriarchs?Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?and later confirmed with the Hebrew people as a whole at Sinai. For others it may mean a more existential relationship, perhaps with a less personal...