Pentateuch
noun
Usually the Pentateuch the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
Pentateuchal
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a word derived from
Pentateuch.
Example Sentences
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The result of this was that a writer who had had a new revelation was forced to ascribe his account of it to one of the canonical prophets or one of the Pentateuchal patriarchs.
From The New Yorker ● May 6, 1955
This father seems to have made a sort of mélange of some of the Pentateuchal ordinances.
From Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
So far as this question is concerned, on all points which can be tested, the Pentateuchal writer states that which is not true.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley
His Pentateuchal criticism is limited by the tradition of Mosaic authorship: but even within these limits he achieves much.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
Canon Driver's article contains as clear and candid a statement as I could wish of the position of the Pentateuchal cosmogony from his point of view.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley
