Monday, September 05, 2005

DovBear on the eighth III

Well done.

In response to my poll, and overwhelming majority of you said that you did not believe that "Our Torah is the same one (ie: word-for-word and letter-for-letter) that Moshe received at Sinai."

As many of you noted, the last few verses of the Torah were (according to some) written by Joshua, and much of Devorim is a valedictory oration that had to have been composed after the revelation at Sinai.

So let's move on. We're established that our Torah is not identical (ie: word-for-word and letter-for-letter) with whatever God gave to Moses at Sinai. But is it identical to the Torah Joshua brought with him into Israel? Here's the follow-up poll:

How many of you out in reader-land accept the truth of this statement:

Our Torah is the same one (ie: word-for-word and letter-for-letter) that Joshua brought into Israel.

A simple "yes" or "no" will suffice, and there's no need to put your name on it.