Pentateuch
a term applied exclusively to the first five books of the Old Testament collectively, termed in Hebrew torah the law. The first mention of the five-fold division is made by Josephus.
It seems to have been made by the Septuagint translators, who then bestowed on the volume a Greek name expressive of what they had done. Samaritan Pentateuch, the Pentateuch in use among the Samaritans. Words which have in them d and r, and again i and v, letters unlike in the Samaritan, but very similar in Hebrew [(d) and (r), also (i) and (v)], are sometimes interchanged, showing that the work was derived from a Hebrew original. The passages attributed to Ezra are in it. It substitutes Mount Gerizim for Mount Ebal in Deut. xxvii: 4. The text in various places differs from the Hebrew, generally however agreeing with the Septuagint. The chronology also is in places at variance with that of the Hebrew Bible. If Josephus is correct as to PENSIONS, OLD AGE. See OLD the date of the building of the Temple AGE PENSIONS.