Moses - Man or Myth? -Who Wrote the "Books of Moses"?

 Traditionally,  Moses has been credited with being the author of the first five books of the Bible, called the Pentateuch.  Moses may have drawn some of his information from earlier historical sources.  Many critics believe, though, that Moses did not write  the  Pentateuch at all. "It is thus clearer than the sun at noonday that the Pentateuch  was not written by Moses," asserted the 17th-century philosopher Spinoza.  In the latter half of the 19th century, the German scholar Julius Wellhausen popularized the "documentary " theory-that the books of Moses are an amalgam of the works of several authors or teams of authors. 

Note:  How does he know he did not live back then.  I, for one, do not believe in critics, there would no used for them if people used their brain and decided for themselves, Nor do I believe in authors who did not in that time to write about it. I do not believe  those non-believers who think they know it all.  Stick to the century you writers know and quite writing about stuff in a century you never lived in.  Man up, all of you and get rid of critics.  See the movie, read the book, do it all yourself and quit depending on other people. They are not going to judge you in the end, nor can humans save you when the time comes.  

Wellhausen said that one  author consistently used the personal name of God, Jehovah, and is thus called  J. Another, dubbed E, called God "Elohim."  Another  P. Supposedly wrote the priestly code in Leviticus and yet another , called D, wrote Deuteronomy. Though some scholars have embraced this theory for decades.. the book Pentateuch, by Joseph Blenkinsopp, calls Wellhausen's hypothesis a theory "in crisis." 

Note: Moses wrote what Jehovah asked him to write, all the apostles and Jehovah's friends wrote these book in the Bible the way Jehovah told them.  These people should not argue and call God a liar because he is not and he will deal with these people in the way he sees fit, when he is ready to. 

The book introduction to the Bible, by John Laux, explains:  "The Documentary   Theory is built up on assertions which are neither arbitrary or absolutely false . . . If the extreme   Documentary were true, the Israelites  would have been the victims of a clumsy deception when they permitted the heavy burden of the Law to be imposed upon them. It would have been the greatest hoax ever perpetrated in the history of the world.

Next time: Moses -Man or Myth? - Conclusion of Who Wrote the "Books of Moses"? 

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