Editing Torah (section)

===Traditional views on authorship===
Rabbinic writings state that the Oral Torah was given to Moses at [[Biblical Mount Sinai|Mount Sinai]], which, according to the tradition of [[Orthodox Judaism]], occurred in 1312&nbsp;BCE. The Orthodox rabbinic tradition holds that the Written Torah was recorded during the following forty years,<ref name="Timeline">{{Cite web |last=Spiro |first=Ken |date=9 May 2009 |title=History Crash Course #36: Timeline: From Abraham to Destruction of the Temple |url=http://www.aish.com/jl/h/48944541.html |access-date=2010-08-19 |website=Aish.com}}</ref> though many non-Orthodox Jewish scholars affirm the modern scholarly consensus that the Written Torah has multiple authors and was written over centuries.{{sfn|Berlin|Brettler|Fishbane|2004|pp=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780195297515/page/3 3–7]}}

All classical rabbinic views hold that the Torah was entirely Mosaic and of divine origin.<ref>For more information on these issues from an Orthodox Jewish perspective, see ''Modern Scholarship in the Study of Torah: Contributions and Limitations'', Ed. [[Shalom Carmy]], and ''Handbook of Jewish Thought'', Volume I, by [[Aryeh Kaplan]].</ref> Present-day [[Reform Judaism|Reform and Liberal]] Jewish movements all reject Mosaic authorship, as do most shades of [[Conservative Judaism]].{{sfn|Siekawitch|2013|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=EVSVAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 19]–30}}