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By tradition it was Moses,

But the most likely truth was that it was reimagined and rewritten about 600 BC in Babylon sometime after the destruction of the temples.

The most important clue is that much Babylonian myth was included in the rewrite.

Thus the likely authors are the children of the Jews taken to Babylon as slaves.

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