When was the Torah revealed?

Answer 1

the Torah was written long after Moses, but the original Torah; the Ten Commandments, were received in the desert after the Isrialites had escaped Egypt. Moses went up to mount Sinai, received the commandments, and returned with them. They were not actually "Jews" before this day.

Answer 2

The Torah is basically the Old Testament of The Bible. Jews believe that Torah was given to them by G-d on Mount Sinai. According to the Bible the Torah was given on the 6th Day of the month of Sivan in the 2448th year after the world was created.

Answer 3

Jewish tradition states that the Torah was received by Moses from God (Exodus 24:12) and that he wrote it, completely, before he died (Deuteronomy 31:24). This is listed by the Rambam (Maimonides) as one of the most important truths of Judaism.

So, to answer your question, we have to determine when Moses lived. Tradition places his death in 1272 BCE.

Answer 4

The Torah was revealed by God to Moses (Exodus 24:12) in 1312 BCE during the exodus from Egypt. Moses taught it to the people (Exodus ch.34), and put it in writing before his death (Deuteronomy 31:24) in 1272 BCE.

Answer 5

According to tradition, Moses wrote a scroll containing the narratives of Genesis, at God's command, before the formal Giving of the Torah (Rashi commentary, Exodus ch.24). It was this scroll which he read to the Israelites (Exodus 24:7) as an introduction to what God's covenant would entail. These narratives were not unknown to the Israelites, since they had carefully preserved the traditions of the events of the lives of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (see Midrash, Shemot Rabbah 5:18 and 22).
The words of this scroll were soon incorporated in the complete Torah itself by God, including the ancient traditions of the Creation, the Flood etc. (These traditions had been known by mankind worldwide, except that among the other nations [the idolaters] they had become garbled with idolatrous drivel.)
When God gave the Ten Commandments (Exodus ch.19-20), He gave them in writing, inscribed on stone tablets (Exodus 31:18), while He taught the rest of the Torah to Moses orally, on Mount Sinai (Exodus 24:12), without writing it.
At God's command and precise dictation (Deuteronomy 1:3), Moses penned the entire Torah (Deuteronomy 31:24) immediately before his death, so that it included events that had happened in the preceding months (such as Numbers ch.20).

No Hebrew copy of the Torah has ever been found to differ with the others, worldwide. The Torah we possess today contains the exact wording written by Moses.

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Answer 6

The scholarly position is that the Jewish people did not so much receive the Torah as write it. The five books that constitute the Torah were the outcome of a process that began early in the first millennium BCE and ended after the Return from Exile in Babylon.

Deuteronomy 31:24 purports to say that Moses wrote the Book of Deuteronomy, but Deuteronomy 34:10 inadvertently admits to it later authorship, by saying "And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses" - this can only have been written some centuries after the kingdom of Israel was founded.

Answer 7

The date according to Jewish tradition was 1312 BCE, on the sixth of Sivan (which occurs in June).

The Torah states that Moses wrote it shortly before his death (Deuteronomy 31:24), after receiving it from God (Exodus 24:12). He lived in the 14th century BCE (Seder Olam, Seder HaDorot, Shalshelet Hakabalah, and other sources). Since the Torah is prophecy, those verses that point to future history are not proof of later authorship.
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Answer 8

On the Hebrew calendar, it was given on Mt. Sinai on the 6th of Sivan, 2448.

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Answer 9

Moses didn't give the Torah. He received the Torah from HaShem during the Israelite exodus from Egypt.

Answer 10

The date according to Jewish tradition is 1312 BCE, on the sixth of Sivan (which occurs in June).