> (the Pentateuch is the first five books of the
> Bible, which in long-standing Jewish tradition
> are supposed to have been composed by Moses.
> Personally I find Moses's account of his own
> death and burial in Deuteronomy compelling)

If I'm not mistaken, Jewish tradition says that Moses wrote down the Pentateuch, except for the bit at the end where he dies, which was put down by his successor Joshua.

Not that this post is necessary at all, since this whole thread is over a year old and you probably don't read the forum anymore anyway, and if you do you very well might not check up on the old threads to see if anyone posted a reply to a side note you made fourteen months ago, but this has been bugging me this entire time and, prompted by the thread in modern times about posting to prehistoric threads (well, it was originally about tangents, but it was hard to stay on the original topic), I decided to post this message and clear my mind of the whole bloody thing. Even then, it still doesn't matter because the Bible's validity does not rest upon Moses transcribing it.

Hmm. That was a rather pointless explanation.

-eric "So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord." sleator
Sun 11 Feb A.D. 2001