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Torah

noun

(pl. toroth)

The whole body of the Jewish sacred writings and tradition including the oral tradition.

The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit. Synonyms: Laws, Pentateuch.

(Judaism) the scroll of parchment on which the first five books of the Hebrew Scripture is written; is used in a synagogue during services.

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... who were anxious for the spiritual rather than the political independence of the Jews, counseled submission to Rome, and were willing "to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's," so long as they were not compelled to give up the Torah. But the Zealots desired political as well as religious freedom, and they fomented rebellion. They have been compared by Merivale to the Montagnards of the French Revolution, driven by their own indomitable passion to assert the truths that ...

— Josephus • Norman Bentwich

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