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Although the Torah is traditionally attributed to Moses, there is no evidence to support this view and there is not a single statement anywhere in the Torah that claims that Moses was actually the author. All the evidence supports it having been written by multiple authors some centuries after the time attributed to Moses.

Various discrepancies, inconsistencies and errors within the Torah show that none of the authors of these books was a participant in any of the events supposedly described. There is even confusion as to the name of Moses' father-in-law, with at least three alternatives used, explicable if there were multiple authors, but not plausible if Moses wrote the Torah.

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