Quotes about Authorship

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were all written within two generations of the time of Jesus--in other words, by the end of the first century at the latest--though most scholars would put most of them earlier than that.

Your story is a biography of wisdom and grace written by another.

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, or both—that did not come to a close until the postexilic period.

It is only to admit that what we have cannot be explained as an early (second-millennium-BC) document written essentially by one person (Moses). Rather, the Pentateuch has a diverse compositional history spanning many centuries and was brought to completion after the return from exile.

The point of all this is that the book of Exodus as we know it simply could not be as old as the thirteenth century BCE, and could not have been written by Moses.

The real Jesus can only be truly understood from a later vantage point—interpreted after the resurrection when the broader implications of who Jesus was and what he did could be better grasped. That is the Jesus the Gospel writers give us, each in his own way.

The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.

the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself.

It is I who made the earth and created man upon it. It was My hands that stretched out the heavens, and I ordained all their host.

For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.