Patterns of the Evidence- The Moses Controversy

The key question of the study is, “Did Moses have the ability to write the first five books of the Bible ___________________________?”

• as an eyewitness account

• without the help of a scribe

• while being illiterate

• before there was any form of writing

• while running an organization with 600,000 grouchy people

Throughout history all known Torah scrolls were written in __________________.

• blue ink

• Hebrew

• Greek

• Latin

• haste

The oldest know copies of the Old Testament are the ___________________.

• Dead Sea Scrolls

• Masoretic texts

• Jordan River Papyri

• Codex Sinaitus

• Sea of Galilee Scrolls

The oldest discovered copies of the Old Testament showed essentially the same wording as Bibles today with only variations with things like _____________________.

• doctrine

• spelling

• authorship

Because of the perishable nature of the _____________________ material it is not surprising that we have not found much evidence of writing from the early part of Israel’s history.

• cow hide

• sheep skin

• river reed

• leafy green

• stone

For Moses to have written the Torah and for the Israelites to read it they needed the power of ________________.

• the sun

• an alphabet

• wealthy leaders

• the press

• women

Scripture tells us that _________________ believed that Moses wrote the Torah. In fact he said that “If you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

• Pharaoh

• Caesar

• Jesus

• Joseph

• Noah

Ancient inscriptions found at Sinai confirm that the Proto-Sinaitic script is the earliest known ____________.

• grocery list

• hymn

• alphabet

• Bible verse

• form of writing

For the Proto-Sinaitic script to be an early version of Hebrew it has to match the look of Hebrew, be readable like Hebrew, and match the history of the Israelites.

• True

• False

One key understanding of language is to realize that each letter ____________________.

• has a corresponding anti-letter

• has changed over time

• can make multiple sounds

• has a fixed place in the alphabet no matter the culture