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Major Scriptures - Judaism:
• Hebrew Bible consists of 39 books (called the "Old Testament" by Christians).
• First five books are called the Torah or the Pentateuch of Moses. Torah means 'Law and Teaching'.
Genesis, Exodus, Levicus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
• Torah is the primary revelation of God and His Law to humanity to his spokesman Moses on Mount Sinai. It is considered eternal truth. Its laws were clarified and elaborated in the oral Torah, or the tradition of the elders, and were eventually written down in the Mishnah and Talmud.
• Jewish literature on legal, ethical, philosophic, mystical, and devotional is virtually endless.
