Some sources indicate that it was given by Moses in 1280 BCE. The first written books are indeterminate. This date is based on what is known as the 'late date' for the Exodus, the Torah being written sometime shortly after when the Israelites went to Sinai. Other sources put the Exodus, and thus the Torah, somewhat earlier in around 1440 BC.
This is based on two things. Firstly, the verse below:
1 Kings 6:1 (King James Version):
1And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
Separately, archeologists have dated the beginning of the construction of the temple as 961 BC.
If you simply add the two dates (961 and 480), this arrives at a 1441 BC date for the Exodus and the Torah of course soon after in 1441 or 1440 BC.
According to Jewish tradition, the Torah was written by none other than Moses which would place it at around 1380 BCE (BC) when it was revealed to him by G-d on Mount Sinai. The Zohar (a Jewish mystical text) says that the Torah was composed before Creation, for which it acted as a sort of plan or blueprint, prior to being received by Moses.
Meawhile, modern historians date it to around the Persian Period which lasted between 539 and 334 BCE. If we choose to accept that it did not result from divine intervention, it seems likely that the Torah is comprised of other, distinct works which may have been written at different times. Some scholars who favour this theory agree that it is chiefly composed of four main parts - the Jahwist, dating from around 950 BCE; the Elohist, from around 850 BCE; the Deuteronomist, from around 650 BCE and the Priestly Source, from around 450 BCE. Others agree that is likely to be a collection of a great number of earlier texts and oral stories, gathered from many different lands and of varying ages. Oral stories are particularly difficult to accurately date, and some could be far older than even the traditional Mosaic authorship dates.
Tradition holds that the Torah was written about 3300 years ago. Modern views are now appearing that state the Torah was still in oral form until the time of King David or later.
Answer:The Torah itself says that it was written by Moses (Deuteronomy 31:24). He lived 33 centuries ago.According to tradition, the Torah was taught by God to Moses (Exodus 24:12) in 1312 BCE. Moses taught it to the people (Exodus ch.34), putting it in writing before his death (Deuteronomy 31:24) in 1272 BCE.
Tradition states that 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). The contents of this scroll included the ancient traditions of the Creation, the Flood, the early Israelites, etc. (These traditions had been widely known, except that among other nations [the idolaters] the Flood and Creation-narratives had become garbled with idolatrous drivel.)
It was this scroll (whose contents were soon incorporated in the complete Torah itself by God), which Moses read to the Israelites (Exodus 24:7) as an introduction to what God's covenant would entail. This was not a surprise to the Israelites, since they had carefully handed down the narratives and events of the lives of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (see Midrash, Shemot Rabbah 5:18 and 22).
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.
Tradition states that the Torah was given by God to Moses (Exodus 24:12) in 1312 BCE. Moses taught it to the people (Exodus ch.34), and put it in writing before his death (Deuteronomy 31:24) in 1272 BCE.
This following article will show the reliability of the Hebrew Bible. First, it will point out a few of the many shortcomings of Biblical-Criticism.
The Torah, the first five books of the Bible (Bereishit -Genesis,Shemot - Exodus, Vayikra - Leviticus, Bamidbar - Numbers and Devarim - Deuteronomy), is traditionally ascribed to Moses as having written it during the Exodus from Egypt. The Bible confidently states that Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt 480 years before the fourth year of Solomon's reign, which would therefore be approximately 1444 BCE. Because archaeological evidence has made the this date for the Exodus untenable, some liberal Christians have suggested that the Exodus really took place shortly before 1200 BCE, when Israelites are known to have begun to arrive in the Palestinian hinterland. Modern Jews generally believe an intermediate date of round 1313 BCE.
However, biblical scholars say that Moses was not really the author of the Torah. They say it was written by a number of authors or sources over a period of several centuries during the first millennium BCE. The main sources of the Torah were:
Tradition states that the Torah was given by God to Moses (Exodus 24:12) in 1312 BCE. Moses taught it to the people (Exodus ch.34), and put it in writing before his death (Deuteronomy 31:24) in 1272 BCE.
The following paragraphs will point out a few of the many shortcomings of Biblical-Criticism and show the reliability of the Torah."Although critics contended that the Hebrew Bible is unhistorical and untrustworthy, time and time again, the archaeological record supports places, times, and events mentioned in Scripture. We now have archaeological information about a number of patriarchal towns mention in Scripture, including Bethel, Shechem, Jerusalem, Mamre, Gerar, Beer-sheba, and Dothan" (Professor John Arthur Thompson, The Bible and Archaeology). The personal names Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are names of the time and area mentioned in the Bible (ibid).
"One city after another, one civilization after another, one culture after another, whose memories were enshrined only in the Bible, have been restored to their proper places in ancient history by the studies of archaeologists" (Prof. Gleason Archer, A Survey of Old Testament Introduction).
No parchment, scroll, or inscription has ever been found that would support the Bible-critics' JEPD (different sources) hypothesis, which remains a set of postulates. And those ancient writers who mention, describe, summarize or translate the Torah (Josephus, Samaritans, Targum, Septuagint etc.), describe it in its complete form.
Archaeological finds, such as the Ugarit documents and those of Nuzu, Mari, Susa, Ebla, and Tel el-Amarna, have repeatedly caused the critics to retract specific claims. The entire social milieu portrayed in the Torah, once criticized as anachronistic, has been shown to be historically accurate, including customs of marriage, adoption, contracts, inheritance, purchases, utensils, modes of travel, people's names and titles, etc. Professor Gleason Archer states: "In case after case where historical inaccuracy was alleged as proof of late and spurious authorship of the biblical documents, the Hebrew record has been vindicated by the results of excavations, and the condemnatory judgment of the Documentary theorists have been proved to be without foundation."
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1800 years ago the Torah already existed
Around 1440 BC. The now debunked theory that says it was written in the time of Josiah was proven wrong by numerous failures by liberal scholars to put forth any evidence for it.
The Torah (the Five Books of Moses) is written in Hebrew. The Jews preserve the unchanged Hebrew text in their Torah scrolls. When you encounter the Torah in any other language, you're reading a translation. Other information The Talmud, which contains the Oral Torah is written in Hebrew and Aramaic.
The Torah is written on parchment with ink
The Torah is always now written in Hebrew. Long ago, the Torah was written in Aramaic, which is the ancestor of Hebrew.
The Torah is written ... and read from ... in Hebrew.
The Torah was dictated by Gcd and written down by Moses. Once Moses died the Torah was "sealed".
The Torah was and is written on parchment scrolls.
Deuteronomy 33:4.
The Jews' rules come from the Torah. The Torah consists of two parts: the written Torah and the Oral Torah. The Oral Torah is the laws and traditions handed down by the Sages, which are today contained in the Talmud. The Talmud explains the details of those commands which the written Torah states briefly.
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Parchment.
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If a mistake is written on the torah then the writter has to start again no matter how far into writting it he/she is! is is written in hebrew and backwards.