BOOK DESCRIPTION
Who wrote the first five books of the Bible? Was it Moses or was it others centuries later? If Moses wrote the first five books of the bible, then how was his own death and burial written in Deuteronomy Chapter 34? Many mainstream Bible scholars argue that Moses could not have written the Pentateuch since he likely existed many centuries earlier than the development of the Hebrew language. When was the origin of the Hebrew language? Popular scholarship says that if Moses had written the Pentateuch, he would have written in the Egyptian language, not the Hebrew. Moreover, most of the Israelites and other people of the sixteenth century B.C.E. were illiterate, so who could have written the Torah, and for whom would it be written because the people of that period did not read?
 
Finally, analysis of the first five books demonstrates multiple authors, not just one, which explains the many discrepancies. Multiple authors also explain the many cases of telling of the same story twice, making the same events appear to happen more than once. The modern mainstream scholarship would argue that within the Pentateuch we see such things as preferences for certain words, differences in vocabulary, reoccurring expressions in Deuteronomy that are not found in Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, all evidence for their case for multiple authors.
 
What does the evidence say? What does archaeology, linguistic analysis, historical studies, textual analysis, and insights fromEgyptologists tell us? Again, who wrote the first five books of the Bible? Was it Moses or was it others centuries later? Andrews offers his readers an objective view of the evidence.
 
BOOK DETAILS
Publisher: ‎ Christian Publishing House (February 17, 2019)
Language: ‎ English
Paperback: ‎ 146 pages
ISBN-10: ‎ 1949586790
ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1949586794
Item Weight: ‎ 5.4 ounces
Dimensions: ‎ 5 x 0.33 x 8 inches
 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
EDWARD D. ANDREWS (AS in Criminal Justice, BS in Religion, MA in Biblical Studies, and MDiv in Theology) is CEO and President of Christian Publishing House. He has authored over 220+ books. In addition, Andrews is the Chief Translator of the Updated American Standard Version (UASV).