Word: pentateuchal
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...Torah, a parchment scroll containing the Pentateuch (first five books of the Bible), is a sacred object, seldom taken from the synagogue...
...accent like Music Master Walter Damrosch's, piano-lectured theme by theme on Three Little Fishies. He embroiders five-note themes tossed up by audiences until they sound like Wagner. His Bach Goes to Town, a swing classic, is now part one of a pentateuch that includes Mendelssohn Mows 'em Down, Mozart Matriculates, Haydn Takes to Ridin', Debussy in Dubuque...
Moses did not write the Pentateuch...
...title means "The Five Books," the pentateuch. It is the book of niti, which means roughly, "the wise conduct of life." The tales are of beasts but meant for men, being divided into these sections: "The Loss of Friends," "The Winning of Friends," "Crows and Owls" (treating of peace, war, etc.), "Loss of Gains" (giving counsel for the retention of property) and "Ill-considered Action...
There is a valuable collection of manuscripts in Hebrew, Arabic and Syriac, written on parchment and rolled in the characteristic way of the Hebrews. Among the manuscripts are passages from the prophets, Pentateuch, the Shofar, which is used even now in the Jewish services, and the Book of Ruth...