When was the Torah finished?

Answer 1

Ravina, the student of Rav Ashi, finished the work of his teacher in editing the Gemara. Some small amount of editing was done by Ravina's students and thus the Talmud (which is the Mishna and the Gemara) was finished at the end of the 5th century around 500 CE. The major commentaries on the Talmud weren't written until hundreds of years later. "Rashi" lived and wrote at the end of the 11th century and died in 1105 CE. The Ba'alei Tosafot, which included Rashi's sons-in-law and grandsons, followed. The commentaries by Rashi and Tosafot are found in practically every page of virtually every edition of the Babylonian Talmud side by side with the Mishna and/or Gemara.

Answer 2

Tradition holds that Moses wrote (or received) the Torah around 1300 BCE. Modern scholarship suggests that the Torah was in oral form until centuries later. No one has an exact date or even an exact year.

Answer 3

In the year 505 CE. Rabbi Yosei of the Pumbeditha Yeshiva, with the approbation and assistance of all the Jewish sages of that time, was the one who permanently sealed the Talmud in its present form

Answer 4

The Torah states that it was written in its entirety by Moses (Deuteronomy 31:24), a short time before he died. Tradition places this in 1272 BCE.