If moses is the author of the first 5 books of the bible/torah, why does he speak of himself in third person?

Question

The first 5 books are (in no specific order): genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, and deuteronomy.

It is often cited by bible scholars that moses is the author of these books, but it is rather suspicious he'd speak of himself in third person as in when it says "and god said unto moses." Might it be that maybe someone else wrote these books? Or maybe he's the great grandaddy of Bob Dole and that's why he speaks this retarded?

Answer 1

Terrell Owens speak of himself in third personal too. Maybe they both have an overinflated self esteem issue?

Answer 2

Even Jesus, including other Old Testament writers cite Moses as the author of one book, the book of Moses or the book of the law of (the LORD of) Moses

Mark 12:26
Now about the dead rising—have you not read in the book of Moses, in the account of the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob' ?

Therefore we know that at sometime most likely when the Tanakh (the Old Testament) was compiled the book was separated into sections. At this time some of the writings from other books may have been inserted into the five new books, such as the Creation story which may be two different versions of the same story one written by Moses and another written by another unknown author.

Answer 3

Why does understanding/no longer understanding the author substitute the credibility? the two way you're asserting "have self assurance this with the aid of fact somebody wrot it a protracted time in the past." The Bible replaced into assembled in the 4th century CE. The Torah (the 1st 5 books of the Bible) have been ordinary to be the artwork of Moses on the time and for hundreds of years later on. I additionally be attentive to that a minimum of by employing the Rennaissance (sixteenth century) Christians nonetheless believed that those books have been written by employing Moses. i could guess that some Jews, extremely Orthodox ones, proceed to have self assurance those books have been written by employing Moses in the present day, on condition that they nonetheless additionally carry that the worldwide is 6000 years old.

Answer 4

If Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible, how did he write Genesis which occurred before he was born?
Further, how could Genesis be 'law' if Moses was not born; and Jesus indicated things were different from 'in the beginning' until Moses's law (Matt. 19:7-9)?

Answer 5

The contradictions between Genesis 1 and 2 are clear evidence of different authorship-many Christian biblical scholars don't even question that but you get your usual collection of evangelical loony tunes who insist that Moses wrote the Pentateuch no matter what evidence there is to prove otherwise.

Answer 6

Scholars have shown that it was written by at least three authors and then redacted at a later date. There are many stories which are repeated a 2nd time just a little differently. I think you might like "Who Wrote the Bible" by Richard Elliott Friedman.
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Answer 7

Moses made up a lot of stuff. He said god wrote the 10 commandments but moses wrote them and said god did so that they would have some credibility. It's the same with the first 5 book people say he wrote. He said it was the word of god but, like the commandment's, it was only to give them credibility.

Answer 8

LOL! Is that what he did with all that time in the desert? Writing these books? Because if so, by the time he got to the Ten Commandments part, he was seriously off his rocker and I wouldn't buy anything had written anyway.

And he wasn't the author, only the writer, then so was Joseph Smith (dum dum dum dum dum)

Answer 9

Moses did not right the Torah; he brought down the laws from G-d! It is written in the third person, with the "He" referring to G-d!

Answer 10

No moses did not write any of it. The person or people are not known. some would like to believe moses was the one but as you say it would have been diferent.