What is the Pentateuch?
The Pentateuch is the first collection of books in the bible. It is made up of the five books, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. The Pentateuch is a focus on the promise that God made to Abraham. Genesis contains the creation stories and then the rest of the books are the building and establishing of a nation through God’s promise. The Book of Deuteronomy is a focus on the covenant laws set forth by God for the people to follow. In this book, there are many different types of laws. A talion is a conditional law in which the reparations are the same as the actions. If a person kills someone, their penalty would be the same as the crime done. A talion is a very large punishment. As the importance of an issue increases, so does the punishment. An apodictic law is an unconditional command. It is a command in which God is saying that the entire situation should be avoided.
