Excerpt from Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament, Vol. 7 of 10: Isaiah by F. Delitzsch, Two Volumes in OneThe thorah is indeed also a prophetical work, since Moses, the mediator through whom the law was revealed, was for that very reason a prophet without an equal (dent. Xxxiv. 10) and even the final codification of the great historical law-book possessed a prophetical character (ezra ix. But it would not have been right to include the thorah (pentateuch) in that portion of the canon which is designated as the prophets (nebiim), inasmuch as, although similar in character, it is not similar in rank to the other prophetical books. It stands by itself as perfectly unique - the original record which regulated on all sides the being and life of Israel as the chosen nation, and to which all other prophecy in Israel stood in a derivative relation. And this applies not to prophecy alone, but to all the later writings. The thorah was not only the type of the pro phetic histories, but of the non-prophetic, the priestly, political.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.