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
We find also several historical repetitions and historical discrepancies, all of which make against the theory that Moses is the author of all this Pentateuchal literature.
From Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Washington Gladden
The two volumes of Professor Bacon, of Yale, have been recognized by the foremost scholars of Great Britain and Germany as containing original contributions toward the solution of the problem of Pentateuchal analysis.
From A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon
This is the same spirit that permeates the Pentateuchal legislation.
From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Frederick Carl Eiselen
Maimonides's ethics as well as his interpretation of the Pentateuchal laws is intellectualistic, as the foregoing account shows.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik
