[S&W, p. OT 432] By the time of Christ, all Jews accepted the five Books of Moses - the Torah - as Scripture; however, Books, like Esther and Ecclesiastes, were debated. From the Dead Sea Scrolls ...

so-called then as “the Pentateuch” or the “Five Books of Moses,” perhaps best known as the Torah or the Law. Lots of names because Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy have ...

The Hasidim are first of all Orthodox Jews. They believe that the Torah, the five books of Moses, is the literal word of God, and that carrying out this word is what gives meaning and purpose to life.

The structuring of Jesus' teaching into five discourses imitates the five books of Moses, the Torah. Therefore some scholars have proposed that Matthew presents Jesus as a New Moses giving a New Law.

I’ve been talking a lot about how we get along with each other and with the world. My commentary has embraced teamwork, caring for each other, people who are black, white, brown and yellow, and ...

A Torah scroll, the most sacred item in Judaism, contains 300,000 letters of the first five books of the Bible. It is written entirely by hand with a feather, black ink on parchment made of animal ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...

Three times when addressing humanity as a whole – Genesis 1:26-27 and Genesis 5:1-3 in this week’s reading, and Genesis 9:6 in next week’s parashah – the Torah asserts the correlation of ...