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Pentateuch
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Pentateuch. A title in use among biblical scholars for the five ‘Books of
Moses’:
Genesis,
Exodus,
Leviticus,
Numbers, and
Deuteronomy. Traditionally these Books have been held to be written by Moses himself. In the 19th cent. the ‘documentary hypothesis’ was developed by J.
Wellhausen and others; according to this the Pentateuch was compiled from written documents dating from the 9th to the 5th cent. BC. Some scholars now reject the notion that previously independent documents were combined to form the Pentateuch and argue that cycles of oral tradition gradually evolved until something like the present form of the Pentateuch emerged. See also
‘J’,
‘E’,
‘D’,
‘P’, and
HOLINESS CODE.
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Recalling a Story Once Told: An Intertextual Reading of the Psalter and the Pentateuch.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biblical Theology Bulletin; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Intertextual Reading of the Psalter and the Pentateuch. By John S. Vassar. Macon, GA: Mercer...core held in common by a people. The Pentateuch lies at the core of biblical texts...allude in one way or another to the Pentateuch. Recognition of the allusive character...
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Pentateuch: the Saint John's Bible.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Internet Bookwatch; 9/1/2006; 128 words
; Pentateuch: The Saint John's Bible Donald Jackson The Liturgical...Exquisitely handwritten and illuminated by Donald Jackson, Pentateuch: The Saint John's Bible is as much a work of art as...devotion to books, art, and religious high culture, Pentateuch presents sacred text in flowing English calligraphy...
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The Saint John's Bible: Pentateuch.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Bookwatch; 9/1/2006; 128 words
; Pentateuch: The Saint John's Bible Donald Jackson The Liturgical...Exquisitely handwritten and illuminated by Donald Jackson, Pentateuch: The Saint John's Bible is as much a work of art as...devotion to books, art, and religious high culture, Pentateuch presents sacred text in flowing English calligraphy...
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Conceptualizing Words for God Within the Pentateuch: A Cognitive-Semantic Investigation in Literary Context.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2008; 136 words
; ...Conceptualizing words for God within the Pentateuch; a cognitive-semantic investigation...El within the Masoretic Text of the Pentateuch in the context of translating the Christian...the meaning of the three within the Pentateuch--the Greek version of the New Testament...
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The Pentateuch: An Annotated Bibliography. (Briefly Noted).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Currents in Theology and Mission; 2/1/2003; ; 95 words
; The Pentateuch: An Annotated Bibliography. By Kenton L. Sparks (Baker, $16.99). Into...and clear abstracts of 714 articles (and some books) dealing with the Pentateuch. Students will soon learn which articles deal with topics of interest...
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Dictionary of the Old Testament Pentateuch.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Currents in Theology and Mission; 10/1/2005; 221 words
; Dictionary of the Old Testament Pentateuch. Edited by T. Desmond Alexander and David W. Baker (InterVarsity...954-page dictionary contains articles on the books of the Pentateuch, its characters, theology, chronology, concepts, and history...
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"Eternal covenant" in the Pentateuch; the contours of an elusive phrase.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2008; 138 words
; 9780567027184 Eternal covenant in the Pentateuch; the contours of an elusive phrase. Mason, Steven D. T&T...that the Old Testament uses of the phrase, especially in the Pentateuch, provide a distinct foundation for Hebrews' theology of an...
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Exploring the Old Testament: A Guide to the Pentateuch.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Currents in Theology and Mission; 6/1/2005; 126 words
; Exploring the Old Testament. A Guide to the Pentateuch. By Gordon J. Wenham (InterVarsity, $25). In this undergraduate...hypothesis and winds up by giving interpretations of the Pentateuch if its setting was in the twelfth, tenth, seventh, or fifth...
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A farewell to the Yahwist?; the composition of the Pentateuch in recent European interpretation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2007; 172 words
; 9789004137660 A farewell to the Yahwist?; the composition of the Pentateuch in recent European interpretation. Ed. by Thomas B. Dozeman...North American theologians were inspired by the work of the Pentateuch Seminar of the Society of Biblical Literature since the early...
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Revelation, textual criticism, and divine writ. (evaluation of the Pentateuch)
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...resides at the very core of judaism, the Pentateuch itself, is susceptible to textual criticism...holy word. The incongruities of the Pentateuch, and its disparities with observed laws...struggled with the insufficiency of the Pentateuch's literal surface, searching the text...
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Pentateuch
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Pentateuch (Gk., penta , ‘five’, + teuchos , ‘...Exodus , Leviticus , Numbers , and Deuteronomy . The Pentateuch contains the history of the Jewish people from the creation...deliberately and creatively drawn together. The entire Pentateuch is divided into fifty-four sections ( Sedarot ) ...
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Samaritan Pentateuch
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
Samaritan Pentateuch The sacred scripture of the Samaritans (who still exist near the modern city of Nablus) consisted of a version of the Hebrew Pentateuch . Other OT books were not accepted as scripture by them.
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Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch (1918–20) is an infrequently performed cycle of five plays by G. B. Shaw , beginning in the Garden of Eden and reaching...
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sources
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
sources 1. The OT . Although the Pentateuch reads well as a coherent and continuous...critical scrutiny of the text of the Pentateuch has disclosed clear evidence that several...to account for these features in the Pentateuch fastens particularly on the different...
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Sedarot
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Sedarot. Portions of the Pentateuch read in the Jewish synagogue on the Sabbath . Each sidrah (sing.) has a distinctive name taken from the first important word in the text. The Pentateuch is divided into fifty-four sedarot so that the entire work is read each year.
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