by anonymous individuals who tried to give their compositions sanction by appending the names of Moses and the prophets to them. There are two major lines of evidence to establish the credibility of the Old Testament, internal and external, and these will be considered in that order. First, the Pentateuch claims to have been written by Moses (Exod. 17:14; Num. 33:1–2; Deut. 31:22), and other books of the Old Testament concur without dissent (Judg. 3:4; 2 Kings 21:8; Mal. 4:4). Moreover, intertestamental
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