to account for the peculiar literary nature of these early books of the Bible. As we will see below, scholars have identified a number of reasons pointing to multiple authors or literary strata and they have labored to find an explanation for how such diverse works came together in the Pentateuch. The division into books does not correspond to the works of the different authors and is entirely secondary. Furthermore, the Hebrew term Torah, ‘Law’, is a little misleading as a description of the content