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The Pentateuch: The First Five Books Of Jewish And Christian Scriptures

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The first week I learned that the Pentateuch is, the first five books of Jewish and Christian Scriptures. The Pentateuch is a book that is a compilation of a great deal of complex information that is very diverse in nature. The Pentateuch is written based on several chapters that take on different methods such as universal narratives, family narratives, blessings, oracles, statutes, case laws. On the second week I learned the Hebrews poetry is called “parallelism.” This is not merely found in the psalms, but in all of the wisdom and prophetic literature of the Bible. The third week I learned, the word “Vanity” in the Ecclesiastes is translated as “meaningless”, or in the Hebrew it means Hebel, that means vanity or empty (Strong 1982). Solomon
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