When1: -700
What: writer
Where: Jerusalem
works\ Torah or Law or Instructions [Judaism holy book]
Detail: The Hebrew-Bible first five books are the Five Books of Moses, Pentateuch, Hamisha Humshei Torah, Humash, or Chumash. A scroll with the five books is a Sefer Torah. Torah books are Bereishit or Genesis, Shemot or Exodus, Vayikra or Leviticus, Bemidbar or Numbers, and Devarim or Deuteronomy. Bereishit has creation story. Shemot has flight from Egypt. Devarim has Moses' speeches. Torah can mean all written and oral law, including Tanakh, Mishnah, Talmud, and midrashic literature.
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