Five Books of Moses

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Pentateuch Torah biblical canon division religious text collection

The Five Books of Moses are the foundational texts of the Hebrew Bible, traditionally attributed to Moses and comprising Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Pentateuch	42
Five Books of Moses canonical	2
Samaritan Torah	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T320080 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Five Books of Moses
Context triple: [Torah, alsoKnownAs, Five Books of Moses]

A. Sefer HaBahir
Sefer HaBahir is an early, foundational work of Jewish mysticism that introduces many of the core symbolic concepts and themes later developed in Kabbalah.
B. Book of Exodus
The Book of Exodus is the second book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament, narrating the Israelites’ deliverance from slavery in Egypt under Moses and the establishment of their covenant with God.
C. Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of ancient Jewish manuscripts discovered near Qumran that include some of the oldest known biblical texts and shed light on Second Temple Judaism.
D. Anno Mundi
Anno Mundi is a year-numbering system that dates events from the traditional Jewish calculation of the world's creation in the Hebrew calendar.
E. Zohar
The Zohar is the central mystical text of Jewish Kabbalah, presenting esoteric interpretations of the Torah and profound teachings on the nature of God, the cosmos, and the soul.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Five Books of Moses
Target entity description: The Five Books of Moses are the foundational texts of the Hebrew Bible, traditionally attributed to Moses and comprising Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

A. Sefer HaBahir
Sefer HaBahir is an early, foundational work of Jewish mysticism that introduces many of the core symbolic concepts and themes later developed in Kabbalah.
B. Book of Exodus
The Book of Exodus is the second book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament, narrating the Israelites’ deliverance from slavery in Egypt under Moses and the establishment of their covenant with God.
C. Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of ancient Jewish manuscripts discovered near Qumran that include some of the oldest known biblical texts and shed light on Second Temple Judaism.
D. Anno Mundi
Anno Mundi is a year-numbering system that dates events from the traditional Jewish calculation of the world's creation in the Hebrew calendar.
E. Zohar
The Zohar is the central mystical text of Jewish Kabbalah, presenting esoteric interpretations of the Torah and profound teachings on the nature of God, the cosmos, and the soul.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Pentateuch ⓘ Torah ⓘ biblical canon division ⓘ religious text collection ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Humash ⓘ Pentateuch ⓘ linked to: Five Books of Moses Torah ⓘ
canonicalStatus	most sacred section of the Hebrew Bible in Judaism ⓘ
centralDoctrine	covenant between God and Israel ⓘ
containsTheme	covenant law code ⓘ creation ⓘ exodus from Egypt ⓘ law and commandments ⓘ promised land ⓘ revelation at Sinai ⓘ wilderness wanderings ⓘ
dividedInto	parashot ⓘ
genre	law code ⓘ narrative ⓘ religious history ⓘ
hasPart	Book of Deuteronomy ⓘ Book of Exodus ⓘ Book of Genesis ⓘ Book of Leviticus ⓘ Book of Numbers ⓘ
influenced	Christian theology ⓘ Jewish law ⓘ linked to: Halakha Western legal traditions ⓘ
keyFigure	Aaron ⓘ Abraham ⓘ Isaac ⓘ Jacob ⓘ Joshua ⓘ Moses ⓘ
numberOfParts	5 ⓘ
originalLanguage	Biblical Hebrew ⓘ linked to: Hebrew
partOf	Hebrew Bible ⓘ linked to: Tanakh Old Testament ⓘ linked to: Bible
religion	Christianity ⓘ Judaism ⓘ Samaritanism ⓘ
sacredTextOf	Christianity ⓘ Judaism ⓘ Samaritanism ⓘ
scripturalStatusInJudaism	Torah shebikhtav (Written Torah) ⓘ linked to: Torah
timePeriodDescribed	from creation to the death of Moses ⓘ
traditionalAuthor	Moses ⓘ
usedInLiturgy	church lectionary readings ⓘ synagogue Torah reading ⓘ

How these facts were elicited