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From: arig@cvl.UUCP (Ari Gross)
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Subject: Re: OT Oral Tradition -re: pickin' bones with MORMONS
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 20:22:24 EDT
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>      Most Bible scholars agree that most of the OT was handed down through an
> oral tradition.  Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and Numbers (The
> Pentateuch) were certainly not written until much later after they were first
> composed orally.  There is no evidence that Moses wrote anything.  In fact,
> there is no evidence that any of the OT prophets wrote anything.

> 				Jeff Fields
> 				{ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!jefff

        It would seem that the contention that the OT wasn't
written down until much later is refuted in the Bible. At the
end of Deuteronomy there is the following injunction:

        "Write down for yourselves this Song (these verses)...Put
         it in their (the Children of Israel's) mouths."

This would seem to indicate that the OT was written (at least the
five books of Moses) while the Children of Israel were still in the
desert. 

                                Ari Gross
                                arig@cvl.arpa