The closing book of the Torah, handwritten nearly three thousand years earlier.” Maybe even the first one ever, written, as it was thought at the time, by Moses himself. Advertisement ...

THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES: A Translation With Commentary. By Robert Alter. Norton, 1,064 pp. (in slipcase) $39.95. GILGAMESH: A New English Version. By Stephen Mitchell. Free Press, 290 pp. $24. For ...

Moses could not have literally composed this book on his own, for the Sages taught that a prophet is not allowed to say in God’s name what he did not hear from God (Shabbat 104a).

The question that was raised about Shapira’s scrolls in 1883 is the same one addressed in The Lost Book Of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible by Chanan Tigay: ...