A book titled (Who Wrote The Torah), published in 1987 by Elliot Friedman, a professor in the University of California in U.S.A., stirred up the Jewish and Christian worlds. Professor Friedman explains that the five books composing the Taurah were written by five different theologians and that they were in no way comparable to the original copy of the Taurah revealed to Mûsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’. In the same book, Professor Friedman states that the (Old) and (New) (Testaments) of the (Holy Bible) are in contradiction with each other, and gives examples. Moreover, Professor Friedman points out that there are inconsistencies in the books, and even in the chapters, making up the Taurah, and adds that a book of that sort could by no means be called a (heavenly Book). There is also a vast stylistic textual difference in the five books making up the Taurah.
According to Prof. Friedman, today’s Taurah was written by five rabbis who lived several centuries after Mûsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ and later another rabbi named Ezra gathered them together and published them in the name of the original version of the Old Testament. Historian Prof. Friedman’s conclusive remarks can be briefly paraphrased as follows:
“There are three versions of the Taurah today: The Hebrew version accepted by Jews and Protestants; the Greek version accepted by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches; the Samaritan Pentateuch accepted by the Samaritans.[1] These versions are known as the oldest and the most dependable versions of the Taurah, yet there are innumerable contradictions, both within the versions and between the versions. They contain suggestions of cruelty to people and extremely ugly and unbecoming imputations to Prophets. The real Taurah could by no means be said to have contained these inconsistencies.”
Richard Simon, a French clergyman, says in his book (Historia Critique du Vieux Testament) that (today’s) Taurah is not the original Taurah revealed to Mûsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ and that it is a compilation of various books written in different times. The clergyman’s book was seized and he was excommunicated.
Dr. Jean Astruc says in his book (Conjectures il parait que Mouse s’est Servi pour composer le livre de la Genese) that each of the five books of the Pentateuch is a different book compiled from various sources. He points out also that the same names in one section are changed and repeated at one or two other places.
It is written in the eleventh and later verses of the first chapter of Genesis that plants were created before mankind. On the other hand, it is written in the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth verses of the second chapter that man was created and at that time there were no plants on the earth and that plants were created after the creation of man. On account of his disclosure of contradictions such as this and many other grave errors, Jean Astruc was proclaimed a heretic.
Gottfried Eichhorn published a book in 1775. In this book he says that the five books, including Genesis, are different both in dates and in styles of language. However, Eichhorn and his books were excommunicated.
Herden, a German poet and philosopher, writes in his work titled (Von Geiste den hebraischen Poesie) that the poems in the book (Psalms) of the Old Testament were written by different Hebrew poets in different times and that they were compiled afterwards. He states also that the (Song of Solomon) is only a book of carnal and obscene love songs and that the poems in it could not be attributed to such an exalted Prophet as Suleymân ‘alaihis-salâm’. Those who are interested should only take a look at the (Song of Solomon).
Owing to the improvements in the studies carried on in the Hebrew language in the nineteenth century, it was proved that the five books included in the Taurah did not belong to Mûsâ ‘alaihis- salâm’ and that these Pentateuchal books were compiled in different times. Very many European historians, priests and bishops published works on this subject.
Dr. Graham Scroggie of the Mood Bible Institute confesses in the book (Is the Bible the Word of God?) that neither the (Old Testament) nor the (New Testament) is the Word of Allah.
Dr. Stroggie states, “Genesis is full of genealogies. Who was born from whom, how he was born, etc. It always gives information of this sort. Why should these things interest me? What do these things have to do with worships, with loving Allâhu ta’âlâ? How can one be a good person? What is the day of Judgement? Who will call us to account, and how? What should one do to become a pious person? These things have very little reference. For the most part, various fables are related. Before daytime is defined, it begins to tell about the night.” How could a book of this kind ever be the Word of Allah?
Today a person who reads the books called (Torah) by Jews and the (Old Testament) by Christians will think he is reading a book of sexology teaching ways of indecency, obscenity and immorality, instead of a heavenly book revealed by Allâhu ta’âlâ. Many Western priests and scientists, realizing that these books are not the Word of Allah, have published innumerable books and tried to inform everyone of the fact. =>
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CHAPTER : JUDAISM — THE TAURAH — TALMUD
PAGE : 384 – 392
