The Pentateuch, a term taken from the Greek, designates the five books found at the beginning of the Bible, which constitute the Torah of Moses. The Fathers rarely use the word Pentateuch. Like the NT, they rather speak of “Moses” or “the Law”, νόμος in Greek, the word chosen by the Hellenistic Jews of Alexandria as the equivalent of the Hebrew Torah. The Torah is the law which governs the people of Israel, by virtue of which it enjoyed certain privileges in the Roman E…