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- Mosaic authorship is the Judeo-Christian tradition that the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament, were dictated by God to Moses.
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One of the most significant was David Zvi Hoffmann (1843–1921), who attempted to defend Mosaic authorship by demonstrating that the sources identified by the documentary hypothesis were, in fact, pre-exilic; if this were proven, he believed, then the hypothesis itself was dis-proven. [27]
Moses and authorship of the Law. According to the Hebrew Bible, Moses was the leader of early Israel out of Egypt; and traditionally the first five books of the Hebrew Bible are attributed to him, though most modern scholars believe there were multiple authors.
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Support from the Pentateuch
Throughout the Pentateuch it becomes clear that Moses is recording what happens.Exodus 24:4 states that "Moses then wrote down everything the LORD had said" andthat shortly thereafter he took the "Book of the Covenant and read it to thepeople" (Ex 24:7). Moses also wrote down theTen Commandments (Ex 24:27-28). Other passages shed light onthe fact that Moses kept record of what was going on (Ex 17:14; Num 33:2), andthere are clear references that Moses was the author ofDeuteronomy(Deut 31:9, 1...
Support across the Bible
The Bible refers to Moses as the authority behind the books of the Law.The books are referred to as the "Book of Moses" (5 times),the "Law of Moses" (22 times), the "Book of theLaw of Moses" (4 times), the"Word of the Lord by Moses" (1 Time), and the contentsof the books are attributed to Moses over 32 times (cf. 2 K. 21:8, 1 Ch. 15:15,1 Ch. 22:13, 2 Ch 24:6, 2 Ch. 33:8, 2 Ch. 34:14, Ne. 1:8, Ne. 8:14, Ne. 10:29,Mal. 4:4, Matt. 8:4, Matt. 19:8, Matt. 22:14, Mark 1:44, Mark 7:10, Mark 10:4,Luk...
Jewish and early Christian support
The Jewish talmud refers to the first five books of the Bible as the"Book of Moses." Furthermore, the Mishna and the early Jewish historianJosephusboth accepted the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch(Arnold and Beyer, p. 69).
"Although biblical scholarship is deeply divided on the issue of how thePentateuch was composed, there is widespread agreement that the Pentateuch, asit now stands, is an edited work and not a piece of literature that waspenned... by one individual," (Alexander, p. 61-62). This conclusion stems fromthe fact that the Pentateuch occasionally refers t...
T. Desmond Alexander and David W. Baker, "Authorship of the Pentateuch", byT.D. Alexander, Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch(IVP, 2003) pp.61-72Bill Arnold and Bryan Beyer, Encountering the Old Testament. (Baker, 1999)pp. 68-9God, hearing the complaints of the people of Israel in Egypt, appeared to Moses in a burning bush and tells him to go back to Egypt and free his people. After a number of tribulations, Moses led the Hebrews out of Egypt. According to the fourth book, Numbers, there were 603,550 adult males (Num. 1:45).
Apr 28, 2020 · Mr. William Wood corroborates that the majority of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible) were in fact written by Moses. By and large, Moses was the actual author of the first five books of the Bible.
The Mosaic authorship characterized the interpretation of the Pentateuch in the precritical period of research. The study of the Pentateuch in the modern era has been dominated by the quest to identify its anonymous authors and the changing social contexts in which the literature was written.
Apr 12, 2016 · Ben-Sira (Ecclus. 24:23), Philo (Life of Moses 3. 39), Josephus (Ant. 4.326), the Mishnah (Pirqê Abôth 1. 1), and the Talmud (Baba Bathra 14b) are unanimous in their acceptance of the Mosaic authorship. The only debate centred in the account of Moses’ death in Dt. 34:5ff.
