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The Torah is said to have been passed down from the biblical figure Moses of the Exodus from where the tribes of Israel get their laws from. The Ten Commandments were a progressive step in authoritative law which before that the law was basically Hammurabi's law, 'An eye for an eye'. Genesis seems to be a re-writing of thousands of years of philosophical and mythical explanations of our reality and how we came to be. It's all there, Egyptian (7 years of plenty, 7 years of famine), Sumerians (Enuma Elish, flood of Gilgamesh, being put into basket and thrown into river, the Nephilim giants, the Anunaki), Canaanite/Phoenician (the Leviathan)….I will be here all day writing all the connections that have been accounted for in the Torah alone that at that time, was the most progressive and intelligent writings that had ever been produced about the matter coming out of the middle east.
Who wrote the Torah (first five books of the bible), is actually unknown. There is no information that has survived considering how many times everything was destroyed and had to be rebuilt and re-founded even by remembering vocal traditions being spoken as the tradition like the Mishnah that was never supposed to be written down but the loss of so much documentation in the ancient wars concerning Babylon, the Seleucid Greeks and then finally the Romans which under Hadrian, erased Israel from the map and renamed it Palestine.
The writings are historic but many parts of it are not literal and may be as parabolic and metaphorical as Hollywood movies. What matters is the wisdom and truth one can receive studying the scriptures which any and all truth and measurement is the real word of God and the true magical supernatural powers one can receive from being as wise as they can be, is gaining a sight in which one can determine much and deduce much and even predict things before actually knowing.