5.2 Comment
The
first section of the Old Testament is called Pentateuch. It consists of five
more or less separate books each with its own title, which, however, together
form a unique literary work. The Pentateuch tells a story from the creation of
the world up to the point, when Israel is standing at the border to the
Promised Land, basically concluding with the report of Moses’s death. Besides
telling the story, the Pentateuch is also characteristic for its extended legal
and legal-cultic passages. The Pentateuch shows marks of complex composition in
the process of its coming into the being, at the same time it presents
interesting literary and theological plan.