Definition of Pentateuch

1. Noun. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit.


Definition of Pentateuch

1. n. The first five books of the Old Testament, collectively; -- called also the Law of Moses, Book of the Law of Moses, etc.

Definition of Pentateuch

1. Proper noun. The Torah: the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. ¹

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Literary usage of Pentateuch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"It ignores the fact, says Klostermann, that the pentateuch was a book for the edification of the community, in the transmission of which the emphasis must ..."

2. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, Horatio Balch Hackett, Ezra Abbot (1872)
"13, a form which disappears altogether after the pentateuch ; many ... 3-5) is a compendium, as it were, of the history of the pentateuch from Exodus ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"If the pentateuch is a compilation, and if the documents used by the compiler were written subsequently to Moses, is it possible to arrange them ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"(2) A less liberal interpretation of the Decree is implied in the pentateuchal hypotheses advanced by Hoberg ("Moses und der pentateuch; Die pentateuch ..."

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