The Old Testament has four sections. The first five books of the Old Testament are called the Law, the Pentateuch, or the Torah. After them, you find the historical books that follow a narrative ...

Torah—name applied to the five books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy — a group otherwise called the Pentateuch. Contact us at letters@time.com ...

In this volume, Angela Erisman offers a new way to think about the Pentateuch/Torah and its relationship to history. She returns to the seventeenth-century origins of modern biblical scholarship and ...