When did the authors write the Bible? How can we date the
Levitical laws in the first five books of the Bible? Were these
laws in the Bible written down during the time of Moses? Is
there evidence for a later date for the composition of the legal
code in the Pentateuch? The time of the writing of the Bible can
be determined by comparing history books like Samuel and law
books like Leviticus, and this analysis, among others, reveal
that the Torah was composed later than the time of the earliest
history books in the Bible. If principle characters in the Bible
were law breakers, then Moses composed the entire Torah. If
these characters did not follow Torah regulations because they
were unfamiliar with the rules (the rules being composed later
than their time, by Levites) then it becomes obvious that the
Torah evolved gradually over time. The evidence of the
contradictory nature of history and doctrine on the pages of the
Torah indicates that the documents did not come from a single
source. The Bible is found to