The Old Testament: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

When applied to the Torah as a whole, it suggests that the Torah is comprised of four main sources-four originally separate, (more or less) complete…

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In the first century c.E., Josephus (the great Jewish historian who wrote in Greek) knew of the Bible.5 He called it to hiera grammata ("The Holy Writings").6 He also called it grammasi ("that which is written")-often translated as "Scrip- ture"7 but better rendered uncapitalized, as "scripture."

Deuteronomy serves to recap everything we’ve read so far—it skims the surface of things that’ll be familiar.