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[DarkReign]

According to Moses Maimonides, the 12th Century rabbi and philosopher, Moses was the Torah's author, receiving it from God either as divine inspiration or as direct dictation in the Hebrew year 2449 AM (1313 BC).

Eighth and ninth principles of Maimonidies' 13 Principles, Artscroll Daily Siddur, page 75.

That's from wikipedia. I had a website that talked about the history of the Jewish people and mentioned when it was believed that the Torah was written, but I can't seem to find it now.

Just PM Extra Stout. Dude is for all intents and purposes a qualified Theist.

[manufan10]

Just PM Extra Stout. Dude is for all intents and purposes a qualified Theist.

[leemajors]

Parents purposely taught their children to read and write so they could study the holy articles themselves, and participate more openly and informatively in an intense theological society. While I do not know offhand a specific date for the torah's authoring, I do know the previous sentence to be true for all material, at any time period, I've studied concerning the Jewish history.

the Torah was not written because it was forbidden to do so. Oral tradition and recitation ensured an unbroken transmission from Moses passed down to and from Rabbi to Rabbi. Your sentence is incorrect. Didn't the Pharisees throw a fit when Jesus presumed to lecture about Scripture at age 12 in the temple? The Torah was not for children to interpret.

[Thunder Dan]

[z0sa]

Your sentence is incorrect.

How so? The parents taught their children to read and write so they could study the holy articles themselves (this is a fact). By Jesus day, the OT had been completed for quite some time (about 400 years, if I remember). I'm unsure of your 'torah denial' assertion, that people could not freely read of it in the Temple. I have heard of them passing it down through word of mouth but never that, by the time judges and kings were around, that it could not be studied except by the holy men.

Didn't the Pharisees throw a fit when Jesus presumed to lecture about Scripture at age 12 in the temple? The Torah was not for children to interpret.

Pharisees were powerful men, who let that power get to them by Jesus' day if the whole crucifixion/exchange a real criminal's life for jesus' life thing doesn't make it obvious.

You seem knowledgable on the subject. Fill me in where I am inaccurate, please.