Pentateuch

How To Use Pentateuch In A Sentence

• The Greek original of the Christian scriptures, unlike the Hebrew original of the Jewish scriptures, is not constricted by formal orthographic rules and is not part of the formal liturgy as Hebrew is in the Synagogue, where the portions of the Pentateuch are read as a weekly lection. David Shasha: Monolingualism, Scriptural Translation and the Problem of Western Civilization
• The Pentateuch and Joshua relate how Israel became a nation and came to possess the Promised Land.
• Mather, in his 1726 book Faithful Account of the Discipline Professed and Practiced in the Churches of New England, cited Jewish practice as a guide, though not law, on everything from how many congregants were required for a new church (“The Jews of old held, that less than Ten Men of Leisure, could not make a Congregationâ€), to the reading of scripture aloud on the Lord†™ s day (“The Pentateuch was divided into fifty four Parashoth, or Sections, which they read over in the Synagogue every yearâ€). BrothersJudd Blog
• Colenso, Bishop of Natal, was deposed in South Africa in 1862 for impugning the authenticity of the Pentateuch.
• The Jews were called to reject polytheism and worship the one God, the Creator, whose will is revealed in the Torah, which comprises the first five books of the Bible (also known as the Pentateuch) and which contains the Ten Commandments.
• According to her memoir, her father, a former student of the Volozhin yeshiva, “studied Talmud day and night;” while her mother spent every Shabbat reading the weekly parashah (portion of the Pentateuch) with the commentaries of Rashi (1040 – 1105) and Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089 – 1164). Sarah Feiga Meinkin Foner.
• In the particular case of which I am thinking, I felt, as Strauss says, "able and called upon" to undertake the business: and it is no responsibility of mine, if I found the Gospels, with their miraculous stories, of which the Gadarene is a typical example, blocking my way, as heretofore, the Pentateuch had done. Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
• It reminded me of Green Regent's 1975 concept album Pentateuch, with its epic side two, ` Deuteronomy '. MUSIC FOR BOYS
• To clean an unidentified spot of dirt from a page of a Samaritan Pentateuch (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible), Ms. de Arteni used a very soft vinyl eraser, a medium that won't abrade the vellum (animal skin) of the rare 13th-century volume. The New York Public Library: From Vault to Exhibition Gallery: Conserving Library Treasures
• Jewish ceremonial incense includes frankincense and myrrh, and is frequently mentioned in the Pentateuch, the Jewish Old Testament.