Deuteronomy 31 Footnotes

31:9 This verse clearly attests to the Mosaic authorship of at least Deuteronomy, if not the entire Pentateuch. Those who argue that late preexilic or even exilic editors inserted statements like this, in order to give a late composition Mosaic authority, do so only on the base of a previous assumption that Moses could not have written these texts. Such unwarranted assumptions may arise from a desire to divest the Pentateuch, and the Bible as a whole, of any moral credibility.