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True that we don't know that. But when the text itself claims to have been written by Moses that is a pretty big clue.In all our other approaches to historical material we accept the testimony of the author about authorship unless there is some solid reason to doubt it. Consider the Iliad. There are less manuscripts and no older mss than there are for the bible yet, outside of academics, no one seriously doubts that Homer wrote it. And I am not even aware of the Iliad ever making a claim to have been written by Homer. So here we have a book that actually was once just an oral tradition, that does not claim to have been written by Homer, that only has a weak tradition supporting the idea that Homer wrote it, and all over the world laypeople alike accept without question that Homer wrote it.
True that we don't know that. But when the text itself claims to have been written by Moses that is a pretty big clue.
In all our other approaches to historical material we accept the testimony of the author about authorship unless there is some solid reason to doubt it. Consider the Iliad. There are less manuscripts and no older mss than there are for the bible yet, outside of academics, no one seriously doubts that Homer wrote it. And I am not even aware of the Iliad ever making a claim to have been written by Homer. So here we have a book that actually was once just an oral tradition, that does not claim to have been written by Homer, that only has a weak tradition supporting the idea that Homer wrote it, and all over the world laypeople alike accept without question that Homer wrote it.
