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GuardianShua

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This is just the tip of the iceburg. Do you see the problem. I also found a bunch of contradictions.

Deuteronomy 1:1
These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—that is, in the Arabah—opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab.

Deuteronomy 1:3
In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.

Deuteronomy 1:5
East of the Jordan in the territory of Moab, Moses began to expound this law, saying:

Deuteronomy 4:41
Then Moses set aside three cities east of the Jordan,

Deuteronomy 4:44
This is the law Moses set before the Israelites.

Deuteronomy 4:45
These are the stipulations, decrees and laws Moses gave them when they came out of Egypt

Deuteronomy 4:46
and were in the valley near Beth Peor east of the Jordan, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and the Israelites as they came out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 5:1
Moses summoned all Israel and said: Hear, Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them.

Deuteronomy 27:1
Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Keep all these commands that I give you today.

Deuteronomy 27:9
Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, “Be silent, Israel, and listen! You have now become the people of the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 27:11
On the same day Moses commanded the people:

Deuteronomy 29:1
These are the terms of the covenant the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.

Deuteronomy 29:2
Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials and to all his land.

Deuteronomy 31:1
Then Moses went out and spoke these words to all Israel:

Deuteronomy 31:7
Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you must go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to their ancestors to give them, and you must divide it among them as their inheritance.

Deuteronomy 31:9
So Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the Levitical priests, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.

Deuteronomy 31:10
Then Moses commanded them: “At the end of every seven years, in the year for canceling debts, during the Festival of Tabernacles,

Deuteronomy 31:14
The LORD said to Moses, “Now the day of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the tent of meeting, where I will commission him.” So Moses and Joshua came and presented themselves at the tent of meeting.

Deuteronomy 31:16
And the LORD said to Moses: “You are going to rest with your ancestors, and these people will soon prostitute themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake me and break the covenant I made with them.

Deuteronomy 31:22
So Moses wrote down this song that day and taught it to the Israelites.

Deuteronomy 31:24
After Moses finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end,

Deuteronomy 31:30
And Moses recited the words of this song from beginning to end in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel:

Deuteronomy 32:44
Moses came with Joshua son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

Deuteronomy 32:45
When Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel,

Deuteronomy 32:48
On that same day the LORD told Moses,

Deuteronomy 33:1
This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced on the Israelites before his death.

Deuteronomy 33:4
the law that Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob.

Deuteronomy 34:1
Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead to Dan,

Deuteronomy 34:5
And Moses the servant of the LORD died there in Moab, as the LORD had said.

Deuteronomy 34:7
Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone.

Deuteronomy 34:8
The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning was over.

Deuteronomy 34:9
Now Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him. So the Israelites listened to him and did what the LORD had commanded Moses.

Deuteronomy 34:10
Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,

Deuteronomy 34:12
For no one has ever shown the mighty power or performed the awesome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.
 

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Why don't you tell us what you have gleaned from these passages?

If Deuteronomy is a book Moses wrote, then where is the "I" in the sentence? So who wrote Deuteronomy? No one seems to know! There is a great deal of speculation on the Internet, but no archaeological proof.
 
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There are lots of ways to understand that.

They're the books of Moses; perhaps Moses was their author but not their transcriber.

Also, Moses didn't want them to be from him - Moses would have wanted the Torah to be God's Torah, not Moses' Torah. So it also makes sense in this way to use the third person.
 
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There are lots of ways to understand that.

They're the books of Moses; perhaps Moses was their author but not their transcriber.

Also, Moses didn't want them to be from him - Moses would have wanted the Torah to be God's Torah, not Moses' Torah. So it also makes sense in this way to use the third person.

It seems that the book of Deuteronomy is a book of Moses, unfortunatly someone has taken a lot of liberties with it. I will have to study this more.
 
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