noun
The first six books of the Bible (Genesis to Joshua) collectively.
‘According to von Rad, the Hexateuch grew out of liturgical recitations’- ‘It has hardly been possible to trace out and dissect the various constituents of the Hexateuch.’
Origin
Late 19th century from hexa- ‘six’ + Greek teukhos ‘book’.
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