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we do not find even a single place to indicate that the author of
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this book was Moses. On the contrary it leads us to believe that
the author of the books of the Pentateuch is someone else who was
making a collection of current stories and customs of the Jews.
However, in order to separate the statements which he thought
were the statements of God and Moses, he prefixed them with the
phrases, "God says" or " Moses said". The third person has been
used for Moses in every place. Had it been the book of Moses,
he would have used the first person for himself. At least there
would have been one place where we could find Moses speaking
in the first person. It would certainly have made the book more
respectable and trustworthy to its followers. It must be agreed
that a statement made in the first person by the author carries
more weight and value than his statement made by someone else
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this book was Moses. On the contrary it leads us to believe that
the author of the books of the Pentateuch is someone else who was
making a collection of current stories and customs of the Jews.
However, in order to separate the statements which he thought
were the statements of God and Moses, he prefixed them with the
phrases, "God says" or " Moses said". The third person has been
used for Moses in every place. Had it been the book of Moses,
he would have used the first person for himself. At least there
would have been one place where we could find Moses speaking
in the first person. It would certainly have made the book more
respectable and trustworthy to its followers. It must be agreed
that a statement made in the first person by the author carries
more weight and value than his statement made by someone else