Yes, they say that about a lot of books, but that's a difficult thing to prove isn't it. After all, what do we have other than written histories of the transmission? Again, if you look at a lot of the traditions dating to the era of the written Talmud, you're talking about traditions that probably date from the first century A.D. I'd place the rabbinic tradition within that timeframe. It is very doubtful that the Talmud's contents were revealed to Moses.
It's not disputed by Jews or historians that the Talmud is about 3,500 years old... not that it really matters within the context of this discussion because there's no doubt in any honest person's mind that the Talmud is far older than Jesus Christ and so are the teachings of the rabbis that the book contains.
That's just not correct.
Moses lived between 1,300 and 1,400 years before Christ.
The notion that Jewish scholars didn't talk about Mosaic Law until a few centuries before Jesus Christ is laughable. Deserving of ridicule.
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