The Israelites may not have known about Moses' Torah until around 620 BCE It appears that the Israelites knew nothing about Moses' Torah before a book of the Torah was found in the Temple around 620 BCE, a story told in II Kings 22. Scholars contend that there [...]
Did the Generations of Post-Moses Israelites Know about the Torah? Scholars reject the traditional teaching and suggest that the ancient Israelites knew nothing about the Torah until the time of King Josiah (649–609 BCE).[1] Among much else, it is significant that none of the biblical books before this time mention Moses’s [...]
Chapter 22 Part two The curious near civil war over an altar Seven years of battles to defeat and control Canaan ended followed, according to a tradition, with seven additional years[1] during which the priest, Joshua, and elders divided the land among the nine and a half tribes who settled in [...]
