"It has been a traditional belief that Moses was the author who wrote the first five books of the Bible, known as the Torah (the law) or the Pentateuch. No one was present at the time to verify that Moses did indeed write the entire law, however this belief can be tested by examining the books in question. Even a cursory investigation is enough to conclusively demonstrate that no single individual, Moses or not, wrote them, but that rather they are composed of a conflation of conflicting and diverse source materials with the component parts composed over a span of many centuries. Finally these divergent sources were edited and then conflated in a single set of manuscripts"
"The evidence indicates that it was the Levite priesthood who wrote the Levitical laws in the Bible,"
2007-10-31 04:50:49 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ancient jewish oral traditions have much less standing with me than modern scholarship that shows changes in writing styles, language usage/change, etc... within even 1 book of the bible.
2007-10-31 04:56:56 · update #1
My point is it drives me crazy to see on here every day in answer to who wrote the bible that Moses wrote the pentateuch.
2007-10-31 04:57:45 · update #2
Right. I don't suppose it hurts to show the bible fans that some of us non-religious people know more about the bible than they do. Anyway, do I remember something about Aaron being charged to write most of the laws after the 10 commandments? Wasn't he the one who was credited with writing most or all of that endless do's and dont's drivel in Deuteronomy or Leviticus, one of those? Or was that just my imagination?
Giovanni, I wonder how many of the thumbs up were given to you by bible fans who didn't even realize the facetious point you were making. LOL!!
Kibye, I think you make the guy's point pretty well. Jesus commanded the bible 1500 years before he was born? Well anything's possible, right? And without it we would know nothing? This means you could not think of anything we know today that wasn't in the bible? Well, maybe true for you and some others, but not too many, I hope. BTW, I'd be interested in seeing where in the bible Jesus commands this. If it's not in the bible, it can't be known, right? (Did you give Giovanni a thumbs up? Be honest, now. I did.)
2007-11-01 09:35:20 · answer #1 · answered by Brant 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nonsense. Moses wrote the entire first five books of the Bible, including the description of his own death. LOL.
2007-10-31 11:57:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
If I wrote a book in which I described my own death and funeral IN THE PAST TENSE, then you would say I had written a work of fiction, or (if it was to be taken as a true story) that I had not written it at all and it was the work of someone else. Either way, Moses did not write any of the books of the Hebrew bible, for the simple reason that he never existed.
2007-10-31 12:01:31 · answer #3 · answered by The Singing President 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋
God wrote the Bible, He just used people to write the actual words. Does it matter whether it was Moses or not? The important point is that the Bible is God's word.
2007-10-31 12:00:42 · answer #4 · answered by Don 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Does it matter whether Moses wrote the Bible or not? What matters is that they were inspired by God and that is what is important.
2007-10-31 11:57:35 · answer #5 · answered by ginaforu5448 5 · 3⤊ 4⤋
The books of the bible was written by command of Jesus Christ to all prophet, without them there would be no knowledge here on earth.
2007-10-31 11:56:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
I think we're more concerned with reading the Bible than we are with knowing which particular human hands God chose to write it. But that's just me.
2007-10-31 11:56:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 3⤋
For every opinion like the one you quoted, I can find another to counter it. No one knows for certain who wrote the Torah, their is only speculation and conjecture. What we DO know is that it was inspired by God.
2007-10-31 11:58:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
You conveniently forgot to reference ancient Jewish oral traditions, compiled together in many books called the Talmud, that substantiates Moses wrote these books.
Your assertion is intellectually dishonest.
EDIT: if you willfully ignore other sources of information, that makes you intellectually dishonest. I stand by what I wrote.
2007-10-31 11:55:16 · answer #9 · answered by Suzanne: YPA 7 · 10⤊ 6⤋
No really? If you say its fake then it must be written in stone. Show me the stone and link where it says that.
2007-10-31 11:57:46 · answer #10 · answered by mariposa 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋