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The Torah is also considered a sacred book outside Judaism; in Samaritanism, the Samaritan Pentateuch is a text of the Torah written in the Samaritan script and used as sacred scripture by the Samaritans; the Torah is also common among all the different versions of the Christian Old Testament; in Islam, the Tawrat (Arabic: توراة) is the ...
The Arabic translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch has been edited and published at the beginning of the 21st century. [82] Several publications containing the text of the Samaritan Targum have appeared. In 1875, the German scholar Adolf Brüll published his Das samaritanische Targum zum Pentateuch (The Samaritan Targum to the Pentateuch). More ...
Chumash from Basel, 1943, in the Jewish Museum of Switzerland’s collection.. Chumash (also Ḥumash; Hebrew: חומש, pronounced or pronounced or Yiddish: pronounced [ˈχʊməʃ]; plural Ḥumashim) is a Torah in printed in book bound form (i.e. codex) as opposed to a Torah scroll.
literally "God"; is also used as a religious term by Arab Muslims and Arab Jews (Jews who speak Arabic use it mostly within their daily discussions, but not within their religious services, which are said in Hebrew). Roman Catholics in Malta call God Alla in the Maltese language.
The early history of Samaritan Hebrew is poorly documented, though it can be said that trying to directy connect it to Israelian Hebrew is a stretch. Because of the relatively late divergence of Samaritanism from mainstream Judaism its only by the 100's BC there was definitely a separate Samaritan dialect, though it's likely that the dialect is older than this.
El ha-Gibbor – 'God the Hero', 'God the Strong' or 'God the Warrior'. Allah jabbar, الله جبار in Arabic means "the God is formidable and invincible" Emet – 'Truth' (the "Seal of God". [80] [81] [82] [Cf. [83]] The word is composed of the first, middle, and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. See also Alpha and Omega#Judaism)
The Pentateuch or Torah (the Greek and Hebrew terms, respectively, for the Bible's books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy) describe the prehistory of the Israelites from the creation of the world, through the earliest biblical patriarchs and their wanderings, to the Exodus from Egypt and the encounter with God in the wilderness.
The Tawrat (Arabic: تَّوْرَاة , romanized: Tawrāh), also romanized as Tawrah or Taurat, is the Arabic-language name for the Torah within its context as an Islamic holy book believed by Muslims to have been given by God to the prophets and messengers amongst the Children of Israel. In the Qur'an, the word 'Tawrat' occurs eighteen times.