The legal material in the Torah

The legal material in the Torah

            Torah refers to the first five books of the Holy Bible. Another name for it is the Pentateuch (Levine, 1965). In many circumstances, it refers to the stories in all the twenty-four books starting from Genesis to Chronicles. Torah is made of the Jewish peoplehood origin. It means that it has aspects of the call by God, the tribulations they underwent and the covenant they made with God. The covenant refers to the following of the set of moral and religious requirements and civil laws. Oral Torah has interpretations that have been handed over from generation to generation in the rabbinic tradition. The content was given to Moses at Mount Sinai while another one at the Tabernacle. The content involves the beginning of the creation of the world to the origin of the Israelites up to their exit from Egypt and getting the Torah at Mount Sinai. In the end, there is the death of Moses before the Israelites entered Canaan, which was the Promised Land. The Ten Commandments are part of this Torah together with the Passover celebration laws.

The first five books of the Holy Bible include Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (Blenkinsopp, 1992). Genesis involves a good number of covenants. There us a covenant between God and Abraham and the Noah covenant. Exodus has a covenant between God and the Israelites. God gives them laws to follow in the building of the Tabernacle. Leviticus contains instructions on the clean and unclean, including the ones of slaughtering animals that can get eaten. Numbers include the Mount Sinai events where the Israelites received laws from God through Moses. The laws in Numbers touch on the Persian period. Deuteronomy has the sermons on observation of the law before getting into the Promised Land.

The modern-day Christians observe the Ten Commandments in their daily living. The largest commandment is that of love, an aspect which has a good embrace in society (Steineker, 2010). People also attend church services to get to learn more of the Bible, its teachings and try to live in righteous ways as commanded in the holy book. It only helps in providing them with guidance on their lives.

References

Blenkinsopp, J. (1992). The Pentateuch: an introduction to the first five books of the Bible. Doubleday.

Levine, B. A. (1965). The descriptive tabernacle texts of the Pentateuch. Journal of the American oriental society, 85(3), 307-318.