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The composition of the Torah (or Pentateuch, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) was a process that involved multiple authors over an extended period of time. [1]
The Samaritan Torah (ࠕࠫࠅࠓࠡࠄ , Tōrāʾ), also called the Samaritan Pentateuch, is the scripture of Samaritanism, which is slightly different from the Torah of Judaism. The Samaritan Pentateuch was written in the Samaritan script, a direct descendant of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet that emerged around
The Pentateuch is the first part of the Bible, consisting of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. It is also known as the Torah. Pentateuch may also refer to: Ashburnham Pentateuch, late 6th- or early 7th-century Latin illuminated manuscript of the Pentateuch; Chumash, printed Torah, as opposed to a Torah scroll
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.
The Heptateuch (seven containers) is a name sometimes given to the first seven books of the Hebrew Bible.The seven books are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua and Judges.
Thus the Venice edition of 1545, in which the midrashim to the Pentateuch and to the Five Scrolls were for the first time printed together, has on the title-page of the first part the words "Midrash Rabbot 'al Hamishah Humshei Torah" (Midrash Rabbah to the Five Books of the Torah), and on that of the second part "Midrash Hamesh Megillot Rabbeta ...
A summary of the Damascus Pentateuch was made by Israel Yeivin, in connection with the problems of the Aleppo Codex. [10] According to Yeivin, the textus receptus [broken anchor] of the Damascus Pentateuch is mostly harmonious with the Leningrad Codex. As for the variants in vocalization it follows that of Ben Asher up to 52% of the time, and ...
Dorotheus of Sidon (Ancient Greek: Δωρόθεος Σιδώνιος, c. 75 CE - ??CE) was a 1st-century Greek astrologer and astrological poet, [1] who, during the Hellenistic Period, wrote a didactic poem on horoscopic astrology in Greek, known as the Pentateuch (Πεντάτευχος; lit. five books; more commonly known in the Western world as Carmen Astrologicum [2]).