History Quote by Peter Enns

“The Pentateuch was not authored out of whole cloth by a second-millennium Moses but is the end product of a complex literary process—written, oral,…

— Peter Enns

“The bottom line is that for Wellhausen and many other biblical scholars before and since, the Pentateuch as we know it (an important qualification)…

— Peter Enns

“Yet all agree that the Pentateuch is not a single, seamless composition but a patchwork of different sources, each written under different historical circumstances…

— Israel Finkelstein

“The exiled Jews who settled in Babylonia were able to maintain their identity, in part because they were allowed to practice their religion. They…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“The author(s) of the Pentateuch believed that God actually created the universe in the past, Abraham migrated from Mesopotamia to Palestine, Moses parted the…

— Tremper Longman III

“In The Bible Unearthed, archaeologist Israel Finkelstein demonstrates that much biblical composition was done from the 8th century BCE onward. Even in ancient times…

— D.M. Murdock

“When the Greek translation of the Pentateuch was made, /Ģ/ was still a distinct phoneme, but when the remaining books were translated, it may…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

— John Tillotson

This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like…

— Ahad Ha'am

No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses.

— Graham Joyce

“The formation of a unified standard (biblical) text probably also involved the elimination of terms and structures that were too archaic to be understood…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“If Moses were alive today he’d come down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments and spend the next five years trying to get…

— Amit Tiwari