pentateuch
- n the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit
- His Bach Goes to Town, a swing classic, is now part one of a pentateuch that includes Mendelssohn Mows 'em Down, Mozart Matriculates, Haydn Takes to Ridin', Debussy in Dubuque.
- The full version of this "metabiological pentateuch," as Shaw called it, had been staged only four times in five decades.