Heptateuch

The Heptateuch (seven containers) is a name sometimes given to the first seven books of the Hebrew Bible. The seven books are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua and Judges. The first five of these are commonly known as the Torah or the Pentateuch, the first six as the Hexateuch. With the addition of the Book of Ruth, it becomes the Octateuch. The "Enneateuch" is the Heptateuch plus the Books of Samuel and the Books of Kings (each pair of books counted as one, and not including the Book of Ruth).

Augustine of Hippo produced a piece called Questions on the Heptateuch. Ælfric of Eynsham produced an Old English version of the Heptateuch.

References

• Jean-Louis Ska (2006). "1A. Tetrateuch, Pentateuch, Hexateuch, or Enneateuch?". Introduction to Reading the Pentateuch. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns. pp. 3–8. ISBN 978-1-57506-122-1. 
• Samuel J. Crawford, editor (1969). The Old English Version of the Heptateuch, Ælfric’s Treatise on the Old and New Testament and His Preface to Genesis'. EETS Old Series 160. London: Oxford University Press. 
• Iosephus Zycha, editor (1895). Sacti Avreli Avgvstini Quaetionvm in Heptatevchvm libri VII. Adnotationvm in Iob liber vnvs. Sancti Avreli Avgvstini Opera. sectio III, pars 3. Vindobonae: F. Tempsky. 

See also

• Pentateuch
• Heptateuch: the Hexateuch, plus the Book of Judges
• Octateuch: including the Book of Ruth
• Documentary hypothesis
• Martin Noth
• Old English Hexateuch
• Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses