Who Wrote the Bible? -- Hebrew Scriptures
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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The Origin of the Hebrew Bible
Many parts of the bible have traditionally been believed to be written by particular historical individuals, although you might also believe that they were written by some kind of a divine inspiration. The only exception to this really is the earliest part of the hebrew bible, what's traditionally called the tora - which jews tend to say was written entirely by moses. But even that attribution has been widely known for centuries, to be dubious at best, considering that the end of the torah actually describes the death and burial of moses. So how could moses have written that? Well, rabbis have customarily said, oh, well, it was all wrtten by moses, except that
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