a1425 (a1382) Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) 68 Hider to Moyses, hider to Pentateuchon.
a1450 (c1405) On translating Bible (Trin. Cambr.) in (1938) 7 177 (MED) Wane he haþ rehersiþd al þe bookis of þe Bibel, þane he seiþ in þe prolog of Penteteuke [v.r. Pentatewke]: ‘I preie þe dere broþer.’
a1500 tr. A. Chartier (Rawl.) (1974) 23 (MED) She bar..an olde booke..the Pentacheuke [v.r. Pentatheuke] of Moyses, which was the figure and the shadowe of the feithe.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in 343/2 That after these bokes well learned, we bee mete for Tyndales pentateukes, and Tyndales testamente.
1614 J. Selden 15 Long before his time was the Pentateuch turned into Greek.
1671 J. Milton iv. 90 All knowledge is not couch't in Moses Law, The Pentateuch or what the Prophets wrote. View more context for this quotation
1724 A. Collins 139 It was indifferent to him whether you said Moses was the author of the Pentateuch, or Esdras re'established it.
a1774 A. Tucker (1777) III. iii. 273 The Israelite had nothing more to do than open his Pentateuch [printed Peutateuch].
1818 G. S. Faber (ed. 2) I. 350 It is found impossible to ascribe the uninterpolated Pentateuch to any author save Moses.
1867 M. E. Herbert viii. 210 They were shown the oldest known copy of the Pentateuch.
1932 Jan. 13/2 The primeval notion of the tribal God of the Pentateuch has lived on side by side with the Universalism of the Prophets.
1991 B. E. Close i. 1 With the advent of the Torah-literature, c. 450 BCE, Torah comes to be synonymous with the Pentateuch or Five Books of Moses.