Who wrote the Torah?

The Talmud holds that the Torah was written by Moses

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According to the Torah, the name "Moses" comes from the Hebrew verb, meaning "to pull out/draw out" [of water], and the infant Moses was given this name by Pharaoh's daughter after she rescued him from the Nile (Exodus 2:10) Since the rise of Egyptology and decipherment of hieroglyphs, it was postulated that the name ...
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, with the exception of the last eight verses of Deuteronomy, describing his death and burial, being written by Joshua. Alternatively, Rashi quotes from the Talmud that, "God spoke them, and Moses wrote them with tears".

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Is Moses the author of the Torah?

Mosaic authorship is the Judeo-Christian tradition that the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, were dictated by God to Moses.

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When did Jews write the Torah?

On the basis of a variety of arguments, modern scholars generally see the completed Torah as a product of the time of the Persian Achaemenid Empire (probably 450–350 BCE), although some would place its composition in the Hellenistic period (333–164 BCE).

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How is Torah different from Bible?

The term Torah is also used to designate the entire Hebrew Bible. Since for some Jews the laws and customs passed down through oral traditions are part and parcel of God's revelation to Moses and constitute the “oral Torah,” Torah is also understood to include both the Oral Law and the Written Law.

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Who wrote the five books of the Torah?

Known also as the Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch, the Torah is one of the three main divisions of the Hebrew Bible and also the most sacred, for according to tradition it was written down by Moses at divine dictation.

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Is the Torah and Talmud the same thing?

The Talmud is a record of the rabbinic debates in the 2nd-5th century on the teachings of the Torah, both trying to understand how they apply and seeking answers for the situations they themselves were encountering.

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Where is the original Torah?

The oldest complete Torah scroll known is in the Biblioteca universitaria di Bologna, dated via radiocarbon to ca. 1190 C.E. In a library catalogue dated to 1889, this scroll was mistakenly dated to the 17th century.

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Why do Jews believe in the Torah?

Jews believe They believe that the Torah shows how God wants Jews to live. It contains 613 commandments and Jews refer to the ten best known of these as the ten 10 statements. Torah The name given to the Five Books of Moses that come at the very beginning of the Hebrew Bible.

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Is the Torah holy to Muslims?

The Tawrat (Arabic: توراة‎), 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.

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Is the Quran similar to the Torah?

There are some differences in the stories and the characters in the Torah and the Quran. In the Quran, for example, only seven of the 10 plagues of Egypt are mentioned (Quran, 7:130-131). Another difference is that the Torah emphasizes Pharaoh's daughter as helping Moses while the Quran emphasizes Pharaoh's wife.

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What is the religion of Torah?

What is the Torah? The Torah is the first part of the Jewish bible. It is the central and most important document of Judaism and has been used by Jews through the ages. Torah refers to the five books of Moses which are known in Hebrew as Chameesha Choomshey Torah.

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Who are the four authors of the Torah?

The scholars gave each of these four books (or writers) a name: the Yahwist, the Elohist, the Priestly writers, and the Deuteronomist. The Yahwist was characterized by using the Tetragrammaton ("Yahweh") as the name of God.

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What do Jews call the Old Testament?

The Jewish and Christian Bibles do not contain the same books and they are not arranged in the same order. There is a different "canon," a different listing of the biblical books in the collections that Jews call Tanakh and Christians call the Old Testament.

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Is the Torah based on the Bible?

The most prominent meaning for Jews is that the Torah constitutes the first five books of the Hebrew Bible (also called the Pentateuch, 'five books' in Greek), traditionally thought to have been composed by Moses. These sacred texts are written on a scroll and kept in a synagogue.

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Who wrote the Torah and Psalms?

According to Jewish tradition, the Book of Psalms was composed by the First Man (Adam), Melchizedek, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, Heman, Jeduthun, Asaph, and the three sons of Korah. According to Abraham ibn Ezra, the final redaction of the book was made by the Men of the Great Assembly.

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Which books of the Bible did Moses wrote?

The Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy (The Schocken Bible, Volume 1)

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What language did Jesus speak?

Most religious scholars and historians agree with Pope Francis that the historical Jesus principally spoke a Galilean dialect of Aramaic. Through trade, invasions and conquest, the Aramaic language had spread far afield by the 7th century B.C., and would become the lingua franca in much of the Middle East.

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What came first the Torah or the Quran?

According to the Quran, God (known as Allah) revealed to Muhammad: the Book with the truth [the Quran], confirming what was before it, and [before He sent down the Quran] He sent down the Torah of Moses and the Gospel of Jesus… as a guidance for the people.

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Do Jews believe in the Old Testament?

Torah. The Jewish sacred text is called the Tanakh or the “Hebrew Bible.” It includes the same books as the Old Testament in the Christian Bible, but they're placed in a slightly different order.

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What do Jews call God?

The name of God used most often in the Hebrew Bible is the Tetragrammaton (Hebrew: יהוה, romanized: YHWH). Jews traditionally do not pronounce it, and instead refer to God as HaShem, literally "the Name". In prayer, the Tetragrammaton is substituted with the pronunciation Adonai, meaning "My Lord".

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What is the oldest religion?

The word Hindu is an exonym, and while Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, many practitioners refer to their religion as Sanātana Dharma (Sanskrit: सनातन धर्म, lit.

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Who is God of Jews?

Israelite tradition identified YHWH (by scholarly convention pronounced Yahweh), the God of Israel, with the creator of the world, who had been known and worshipped from the beginning of time.

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Is the Old Testament and the Torah the same?

Christians traditionally divide the Old Testament into four sections: the first five books or Pentateuch (corresponds to the Jewish Torah); the history books telling the history of the Israelites, from their conquest of Canaan to their defeat and exile in Babylon; the poetic and "Wisdom books" dealing, in various forms ...

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What books in the Torah are not in the Bible?

These consist of seven books: Tobias, Judith, Baruch, Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom, First and Second Machabees; also certain additions to Esther and Daniel."

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What is the oldest written Torah?

The Bologna Torah Scroll (also known as the University of Bologna Torah Scroll, circa 1155-1225CE) is the world's oldest complete extant Torah scroll.

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