What are the similarities between the Old Testament and the Torah?
I’m a philosophy student doing some personal religious insight. I’m about to go digging around in other religions for moral truths and ideas rather than finding the “True God,” which is of no interest to me. I’ve heard that the Old Testament and the Torah have many similarities, after all, one sprang from the other, but if the Torah is exactly the same as the OT, then why bother looking at it, right? So I’m just wondering, exactly how similar are the two texts? A: The Torah – in the general sense of the word – refers to the “5 Books of Moses.” The non-Jewish world have come to call these 5 books – “The Old Testament,” because they believe someone came to change the rules of what was written in it. In fact, the rules in what some call the “Old Testament” are still as valid today as they were when Moses came down from Mount Sinai bringing the “5 Books of Moses” down with him. Although this is a general description, the term Torah is far more complex. The Torah refers to both the written
