Did Moses write about his death?

Answer 1

A:An old tradition says that Moses wrote the Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy). A a readily apparent problem with this hypothesis is that the Book of Deuteronomy describes the death of Moses, something that no normal person could do. Two solutions have been devised to resolve this problem. One is that Moses did indeed write about his own death (always writing in the third person), because God told him what to write. Another solution was that the last verses in Deuteronomy, covering the death of Moses, were written by Joshua.

Biblical scholars say there is no doubt that Moses could not have written the Pentateuch - it even has different names in different places, for his own father-in-law. They say that the Pentateuch actually had four principal authors, all of whom were anonymous, and that it was written many centuries after the time attributed to Moses. He did not write the Pentateuch and did not write about his own death.