Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship

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The first five books of the Old Testament lay the foundation on which the rest of Scripture stands.

Its great themes, epochal events and towering figures set down vectors on which the biblical story is played out. The very shape of the rest of the Old Testament would collapse were the Penteteuch to be removed. The structure of New Testament thought would be barely intelligible without it.

Here we meet the great ancestral figures of Israel--Ab...