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HEXATEUCH

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 436 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEXATEUCH  , the name given to the first six books of the Old Testament (the

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Pentateuch and
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Joshua), to
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mark the fact that these
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form one
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literary whole, describing the
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early traditional
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history of the Israelites from the creation of the
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world to the
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conquest of
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Palestine and the origin of their
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national institutions . These books are the result of an intricate literary
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process, on which see
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BIBLE (Old Testament:
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Canon), and the articles on the
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separate books (
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GENESIS,
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EXODUS,
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LEVITICUS,
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NUMBERS,
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DEUTERONOMY and JOSHUA) .

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