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  • away from the Law of God, as given in the Pentateuch. Although they did necessarily reject Israel's God entirely, they worshiped other gods as ...
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  • In addition to the Pentateuch, the Prophets and Psalms. The Therapeutae also possessed arcane writings of their own tradition, including formulae ...
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  • **The "Pentateuch and Haftaras" by Joseph H. Hertz **The Torah commentary of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch **Nechama Leibowitz, a noted ...
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  • in his name. His insights on the Pentateuch are titled Adereth Eliyahu ("The Splendor of Elijah"). Later in his life, he also wrote ...
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  • in the preface to his commentary on the Pentateuch. ==Date and authorship== The book is believed to have been written in Greek, but in a style ...
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  • of the first two parts of the Pentateuch Critically Examined he drew up the address of the bishops which called on Colenso to resign his bishopric ...
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  • Deuteronomy is the only book of the Pentateuch to impose the centralization ... from the four preceding books of the Pentateuch. In addition to the book ...
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  • sacrificial cult described in the Pentateuch (see e.g. Numbers 5:15). In ancient Greece, the ritual significance of barley possibly dates back ...
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  • Five Books of Moses show that Tyndale's Pentateuch is a translation of the Hebrew original. Of the first (1526) edition of Tyndale's ...
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  • Various kabbalistic interpretations of the Pentateuch are also given. Karo's mysticism as expressed in Maggid Mesharim was not speculative ...
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  • quot; following the five books of the Pentateuch, but was later incorporated ... of the same character as those of the Pentateuch. Indeed, many now use the ...
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  • universe. Though he understood much of the Pentateuch as metaphorical, Maimonides regarded Genesis as a clear statement that the universe was created ...
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  • *Hertz J. H. The Pentateuch and Haftoras: Deuteronomy. Soncino Press, 1960. ISBN 978-0900689215 *Kittel, Rudolph. Biblia Hebraica. American Bible ...
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  • Biblical texts of Genesis and the Pentateuch, the books of the Prophets ... proof. His German translation of the Pentateuch anchored the Jewish Enlightenment ...
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  • quot; is used several times elsewhere in the Pentateuch as a euphemism for having sexual relations with one's mother, suggesting a different crime ...
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  • *Rosenbaum, M., A. M. Silbermann, (Translators). 1972. Pentateuch ... " Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch, Edited by T. Desmond Alexander ...
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  • Dead Sea Scrolls, masoretic text, Samaritan Pentateuch, and the versions in the Hexapla, as well as between various manuscripts within each of these ...
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  • *Belief that the Torah (that is, the Pentateuch) and its laws were transmitted by God to Moses, are eternal, and are unalterable *Belief that ...
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  • quot; ("E") source of the Pentateuch originated from Shiloh. In this theory, Shiloh continued as a competing center of worship and ...
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  • Bible, which are also known as the Pentateuch, the Torah or the Books ... Traditional Judaism regards all the laws of the Pentateuch as part ...
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  • the "P," or priestly, source of the Pentateuch. Such descriptions, in this theory, project the pattern of the Temple of Jerusalem backward ...
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  • and does not appear at all in the Pentateuch, Joshua or Judges. ===Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh=== "I am that I am" (Hebrew: אהיה אשר אהיה ...
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  • laws of Moses as expressed in the Samaratan Pentateuch. Other Amorites probably blended into the Arabic, Babylonian, and Anatolian civilizations, ...
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  • The Samaritan Pentateuch varies in the ten commandments' passages. Samaritan Pentateuch. Their Deuteronomical version of the passage is ...
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  • In contrast to the other books of the Pentateuch, Leviticus contains very little in the way of narrating the story of the Israelites. The book ...
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  • preface to the various readings of the Arabic Pentateuch is from his hand. He encouraged interest in Maimonides, whom he admired. He set his Hebrew students ...
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  • at Mount Sinai (including both the written Pentateuch and its elucidation by the prophets and rabbinical sages) *Laws believed to be of human ...
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  • of the Scriptures, including the Pentateuch (牟世法王经). ==Modern Nestorianism== The Assyrian Church of the East and the "Nestorian ...
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  • * Yahuda, A. S. The Language of the Pentateuch in its Relation to Egyptian. London: Oxford University Press and H. Milford, 1933. ==External links== ...
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  • of the first born which are mentioned in the Pentateuch (for instance, Exodus 22.28). Jeremiah 32.35 reads: And they built the high places of ...
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  • * Sermons on the Pentateuch (1863). ISBN 1419164392 * The Water-Babies (1863). ISBN 1853261483 * The Roman and the Teuton (1864). ISBN 1406528730 ...
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  • system is described in much detail in the Pentateuch, Joshua, and the Books of Chronicles. Although portrayed as originating with Moses, most scholars ...
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  • hypothesis, various strands in the Pentateuch—the first five books of the Bible—reflect the theological views of several different authors ...
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  • Psalter is divided, after the analogy of the Pentateuch, into five books, each closing with a doxology or benediction: # The first book comprises ...
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  • between the commandments of the Pentateuch (the legal requirements of the Hebrew people articulated in the Torah — the first five books of ...
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  • on the Tanakh and especially the Chumash, or Pentateuch, is the essential companion for Jewish Bible study at any level: beginning, intermediate and ...
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  • as well as its scriptures, except for the Pentateuch. The center of Samaritan worship is Mount Gerizim, not Jerusalem. The Samaritans believe that ...
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  • called the Five Books of Moses, the Pentateuch (Greek for "five containers," referring to the scroll cases in which the books were ...
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  • Modern scholarship holds that the LXX, beginning with the Pentateuch, was written during the third through first centuries B.C.E. Later Jewish ...
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  • in date, that the grammar and the history of the Pentateuch were later than the time of Moses, and that the Book of Daniel was clearly written centuries ...
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  • Hebrew Bible designated this second book of the Pentateuch as "Exodus" (Ἔξοδος), meaning "departure" or "out-going. ...
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  • *Hertz J.H. 1936. The Pentateuch and Haftoras: Deuteronomy. Oxford University Press. *Leeman, Bernard. 2005. Queen of Sheba and Biblical Scholarship ...
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  • who was responsible for a fair portion of the Pentateuch. Dating to roughly the Exilic and early post-Exilic period of Hebrew history, the account sets ...
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  • Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. While far from monolithic in practice and having no centralized authority or binding dogma ...
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  • as exegetical commentary on the Pentateuch. An alternative form, organized by subject matter instead of by biblical verse, became dominant about ...
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  • lightly edited, Tyndale's New Testament and Pentateuch became the basis for the Great Bible, the first "authorized version" issued by ...
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  • world by way of the basic principles of the Pentateuch, thereby creating the social climate for the millennial kingdom before the return of Christ ...
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  • of Jerusalem, including the Menorah and the Pentateuch. Josephus, The Wars of the Jews VII.5.5. Leaders of the resistance were executed in the ...
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  • scholars who argue for the essential unity of the Pentateuch (though recognizing evidence of editorial redaction), and by scholars who allocate far later ...
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  • * Samaritan Pentateuch, oldest extant mss c. eleventh century C.E., oldest mss available to scholars sixteenth century C.E. * Peshitta texts in Syriac. ...
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