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According to the Mishnah one of the essential tenets of Judaism is that God transmitted the text of the Torah to Moses [42] over the span of the 40 years the Israelites were in the desert [43] and Moses was like a scribe who was dictated to and wrote down all of the events, the stories and the commandments. [44]
The Law of Moses or Torah of Moses (Hebrew: תֹּורַת מֹשֶׁה , Torat Moshe, Septuagint Ancient Greek: νόμος Μωυσῆ, nómos Mōusē, or in some translations the "Teachings of Moses" [1]) is a biblical term first found in the Book of Joshua 8:31–32, where Joshua writes the Hebrew words of "Torat Moshe תֹּורַת מֹשֶׁה " on an altar of stones at Mount Ebal.
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. [1] The tradition probably began with the legalistic code of the Book of Deuteronomy and was then gradually extended until Moses, as the central character, came to be regarded not just as the mediator of law but as author of both laws and ...
The law is to be supreme over all other sources of authority, including kings and royal officials, and the prophets are the guardians of the law: prophecy is instruction in the law as given through Moses, the law given through Moses is the complete and sufficient revelation of the Will of God, and nothing further is needed. [83]
Most of the key events in Moses' life which are narrated in the Bible are to be found dispersed through the different chapters of the Quran, with a story about meeting the Quranic figure Khidr which is not found in the Bible. [151] In the Moses' story narrated by the Quran, Jochebed is commanded by God to place Moses in a coffin [155] and cast ...
Still another story relates that Moses received a large part of the booty captured from Pharaoh and, later, from Sihon and Og. [191] In two other versions, Moses became wealthy by a miracle. One says that Moses became rich through the breaking of the tablets, which were made of sapphires; [116] in the other, God created a sapphire quarry in ...
In the text, Yahweh instructs Moses to take a staff in his hands to perform miracles with it, [16] as if it is a staff given to him rather than his own; [5] some textual scholars propose that this latter instruction is the Elohist's version of the more detailed earlier description, where Moses uses his staff, which they attribute to the Yahwist.
He argues this was a crucial step in the innovation of monotheism. Friedman also argues that most of the Levites in the story, like Moses, Aaron, and Phinehas have names that may have originated in Egypt. He also argues that the Song of the Sea (Exodus 15:1-15:18) and the Song of Deborah (Judges 5:2-5:31) are the two oldest works in the Bible ...