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Octateuch|ˈɒktətjuːk|
Also octo-.
[ad. late L. octateuch-us (Cassiod.), a. Gr. ὀκτάτευχ-ος containing eight books (τεῦχος book); (sc. βίβλος) the volume containing the first eight books of the O.T. (Euseb.). In mod.F. octateuque (Littré).]
The first eight books of the Old Testament collectively; the Pentateuch together with the books of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth. Also, a manuscript or edition of the Octateuch.
1677Hanmer View Antiq. 37 Not unlike unto that [style] of Theodoret in his questions upon the Octoteuch. 1706Hearne Collect. 14 Mar. (O.H.S.) I. 204 The first Volume is to be confin'd to ye Octateuch. 1849Curzon Visits Monast. 204 One MS. of the Octoteuch, or first eight books of the Old Testament. 1967R. L. S. Bruce-Mitford Art of Codex Amiatinus 9 They may be read as follows: OCT·LIB LEG..(i.e. eight books of the Octateuch and the Law..). 1976Amer. N. & Q. XV. 61/2 The Octateuch of Vatopédi, going back to the thirteenth century and considered one of the most valuable of the five known octateuchs. 1977D. Cupitt in J. Hick Myth of God Incarnate vii. 143 A miniature in the Smyrna Octateuch. |