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    "slug": "torah",
    "name": "Torah (Pentateuch)",
    "stream": "egyptian-hebrew",
    "epoch_reflected": "egypto-chaldean",
    "epoch_written": "greco-latin",
    "form": "law and origin narrative",
    "tradition": "Jewish / Christian",
    "author": null,
    "year_approx": -1200,
    "note": "The Five Books of Moses — Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. The foundational layer of Hebrew Scripture: primordial origin narratives (creation, flood, patriarchs), the Exodus and Sinai covenant, and the Mosaic law. ASV (1901).",
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    "steiner_loci": [
      "GA 122: Genesis — Secrets of the Biblical Story of Creation (1910)",
      "GA 121: The Mission of the Folk-Souls — the Hebrew folk-soul"
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      "slug": "genesis",
      "title": "Genesis",
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      "subtitle": "Genesis — origins; the patriarchs",
      "blurb": "The book of origins. The two creation narratives (1:1-2:3 the seven days; 2:4-25 the garden); the Fall; Cain and Abel; the Flood and Noah; the Tower of Babel; then from Abraham (ch 12) the patriarchal narratives — Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph — that establish the covenant promise to Israel."
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      "num": 2,
      "slug": "exodus",
      "title": "Exodus",
      "words": 34728,
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      "subtitle": "Exodus — the deliverance from Egypt; the giving of the Law",
      "blurb": "The deliverance of Israel out of Egypt. Moses called at the burning bush; the ten plagues; the Passover; the crossing of the Red Sea; the giving of the Law at Sinai (the Decalogue, the Book of the Covenant); the construction of the Tabernacle and the inauguration of the priesthood."
    },
    {
      "num": 3,
      "slug": "leviticus",
      "title": "Leviticus",
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      "subtitle": "Leviticus — the priestly torah",
      "blurb": "The priestly book of sacrificial law and ritual purity. The five great offerings (burnt, grain, peace, sin, guilt); the ordination of Aaron; the death of Nadab and Abihu; the Day of Atonement (ch 16); the Holiness Code (chs 17-26) with its great commandment 'love your neighbour as yourself.'"
    },
    {
      "num": 4,
      "slug": "numbers",
      "title": "Numbers",
      "words": 34718,
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      "subtitle": "Numbers — the wilderness wandering",
      "blurb": "The thirty-eight years of wandering between the Sinai covenant and the entry into Canaan. The two censuses (which give the book its English name); the rebellions of the people; the bronze serpent; the prophet Balaam and his ass; the death of Aaron; the apportionment of the land before the crossing."
    },
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      "num": 5,
      "slug": "deuteronomy",
      "title": "Deuteronomy",
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      "subtitle": "Deuteronomy — Moses' final discourses",
      "blurb": "Moses' three farewell discourses to Israel on the plains of Moab before the crossing of the Jordan. The reaffirmation of the Decalogue (ch 5); the *Shema* (6:4-5): *Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart…*; the Song of Moses (ch 32); the blessing of the tribes; the death of Moses on Nebo."
    }
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