but , continued yama , and this is the point of this little storyas of moses , the israelites began keeping very good records of their many adventures and at least as many mis-adventures and these records , scrolls and scrolls and scrolls of them , were then all gathered and compiled and revised and re-compiled and re-revised and then given to the pharisees who insisted on a final say , sanction as it were , and they in turn re-compiled , re-re-revised , and re-compiled these thousands of pages of scripture into one final master piece of revisionist history : the bible .