THE PENTATEUCH

The Pentateuch



The Pentateuch

The Pentateuch (also called the Jews the Torah) is the set of the first five books of the Old Testament. It tells the story of Israel from the beginning of the world until the death of Moses, on the eve of the entry of the Hebrews into the Promised Land. It seems that the beginning of the drafting of these biblical writings since at least the ninth century before Christ. The Pentateuch, or, as they call the Jews, the Book of the Law (Torah), heads the 73 books of the Bible, and is the great door of divine revelation. The names of the five books of the Pentateuch are: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and its overall purpose is to expose how God chose him to Israel and formed for the coming of Jesus Christ; so in reality is Jesus Christ who appears through the mysterious destinations chosen people (Kugler, Robert, Hartin, Patrick, 2009). The author of the Pentateuch is Moses, prophet and organizer of the people of Israel, who lived in the fifteenth century BC or XIII. Not only the Jewish tradition but also the Christian has always maintained the Mosaic origin of the Pentateuch. Jesus himself speaks of the "Book of Moses" (Mk 12, 26), the "Law of Moses" (Luke, 24, 44), attributed to Moses the precepts of the Pentateuch.

Founded on these arguments, the Pontifical Biblical Commission on June 27, 1906 has been determined, with all its authority, integrity and authenticity of the Books of Moses, admitting, however, the possibility that Moses has served from existing sources, and the other, that the Pentateuch in the course of the centuries has undergone certain changes such as: accidental additions after the death of Moses, now made by an inspired author, now introduced in the text as glosses and comments , replacing archaic words and forms; variants due to the copyists, etc. Genesis refers to "generation" or origin. The name indicates that this first book of Revelation contains the mysteries of prehistory and the beginning of the Kingdom of God on earth. Describe, in particular, the creation of the universe and of man, the fall of our first parents, the general corruption, the story of Noah and the flood. Then the sacred author tells the confusion of tongues at the Tower of Babel, Abraham separation of his people and the history of this patriarch and his descendants: Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, to end the blessing of Jacob, his death and his son Joseph.

The essential feature of the Pentateuch (or Torah) is alternating narrative sections with others dedicated to educating the people of Israel and to regulate their conduct, both personal and social ethical and, especially, in the religious. In the first part, which covers the entire Genesis and to chapter 19 of Exodus, dominates the narrative genre. In this section, the stories are linked to one another, only broken here and there by some normative passages. From 20 onwards Ex prevail texts for establishing terms and provisions that reveals ...