Pentateuch

Pentateuch (pĕn`tətyk) [Gr.,=five books], first five books of the Old Testament. In the Hebrew Bible these books are called the Torah.

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Torah

 or Pentateuch

In Judaism, the divine revelations to Israel; specifically, the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. By tradition their authorship has been ascribed to Moses, but biblical scholarship has shown that they were written and compiled at a much later date, probably in the 9th–5th century BC, though drawing on much older traditions. The Scroll of the Torah (Sefer Torah) is kept in the Synagogue Ark. The term Torah (but not Pentateuch) is often applied to the whole Hebrew Scripture (i.e., the later books of the Old Testament), or, even more generally, to that and other Jewish sacred literature and oral tradition.

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Pentateuch

the first five books of the Old Testament regarded as a unity

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Pentateuch 

the first five books of the Bible, also known as the Law and, in Hebrew, the Torah.

The Pentateuch includes the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. The core of the Pentateuch was created during the ninth to seventh centuries B.C. Deuteronomy was formulated in 622 B.C., during the reforms of the Jewish king Josiah. The final redaction and codification of the Pentateuch were carried out in the fifth century B.C. in connection with the religious and political reforms of Ezra.