1 Enoch times the falsification of scripture to the time of Ezra - the people who returned from Babylon, the Ezra tradition. Far from restoring the true temple and the true Scriptures, they were a generation of impure apostates who had forsaken wisdom and lost their vision (1 En.89.73; 93.8-9). Lying words had been written, perverting the eternal covenant; sinners had altered the truth as they made copies, they had made great fabrications and written books in their own name (1 En. 98.14-99.2; 104.10-11)
The story of Ezra in 4 Ezra (2Esd) - already implies he is a second Moses. The prophet Ezra, whose genealogy presents him as descended from Aaron (2 Esd.1.1), heard the Most High speaking to him from a bush. This Ezra was a new Moses, but he was not named Moses. He was told to take five scribes and many writing tablets and then to write what was revealed to him. In forty days he dictated 9422 books, and was told by the Most High that only the first 24 were to be made public. The text suggests that Ezra’s contemporaries were bereft of the law as a result of its having been incinerated (14:21). Ezra received the commission to rewrite the law of God with the assistance of five companions (vv. 22-25). Upon completion of the forty days of rigorous scribal work a total of ninety-four books were produced (v. 44). As the first twenty-four books were to be made indiscriminately available to all people, presumably these texts corresponded with those comprising the Tanakh (v. 45). Thus, portions of these texts were available for publishing inthe public domain while the final compositions were reserved exclusively for “the wise among”Ezra’s people (vv. 26, 45-46).
Pagans identified Ezra to have written the Pentateuch - Porphyry Adversus Christianos fr 465 “Nothing has been preserved of Moses, as all his writings are said to have been burnt together with the temple. And all those which were written under his name afterwards were composed inaccurately one thousand one hundred and eighty years after Moses' death by Ezra and his followers."
Jews acknowledge that Ezra wrote the Bible - An anonymous medieval Jewish commentary on Ps. 137 from Northern France states that “Ezrawent up [to the land of Israel] from Babylonia and wrote all of the [biblical] books” [...] (English trans. from Dr. Eran Viezel, Reading Medieval Jewish Exegesis notes, Hebrew University, 2012. The Hebrew reads) This statement concurs with an earlier account recorded in the post 70 C.E. Jewish apocalyptic work of 4 Ezra (sometimes referred to as 2 Esdras or Apocalypse of Ezra.
Jews acknowledged that pagans said the Pentateuch was forged by someone in Moses's name - Num Rab 8:4 R. Hiyya bar Abba said in the name of R. Yohanan...and the nations of the world would say: Their Law is forged": Yalqut Shimoni on Jer., sect. 321 "R. Luliana said: a [Roman] judge asked R Yosi "As far as I can see your Law is a forgery."
Christians acknowledged that Ezra wrote the Pentateuch we have in our possession - Irenaeus chapter 21 of book 3 he relays a tradition (possibly hinging on 4 Ezra) that“during the captivity of the people under Nebuchadnezzar, the Scriptures had been corrupted, and when, after seventy years, the Jews had returned to their own land, then, in the times of Artaxerxes the king of the Persians” […]God “inspired Esdras the priest [i.e. Ezra], of the tribe of Levi, to recast all the words of the former prophets”(Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 3.21.2) See Roberts, A. and J. Donaldson, Eds. The Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1,Irenaeus, “Against Heresies” (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publ. Inc., 1994). Tertullian [De cultu fem. 3), and Clement of Alexandria (Strom. 1.22:149) repeat the same information that Irenaeus borrowed from 2Esd. Bickermann "Jerome left it to his readers to decide whether Moses was the author of the Pentateuch, or Ezra had drawn up the text of the Law (Adv. Helvidium 7); but antinomian Christians underlined the fact that the Jewish law was a book by Ezra, not by Moses (Ps. -Clementine Hom. 2.47)
Christians continued to adopt Irenaeus's position in debates with Muslims over Ezra's authorship of the Pentateuch - Caliph Umar II (A.Jeffery ‘Ghevond’s Text of the Correspondence between Umar II and Leo III’ Harvard Theological Revue 37 (1944) pp. 717-741) wrote to the Byzantine Emperor Leo III (717-740): ‘You declare that the Code was more than once written by the Children of Israel who read it and understood it, and that it was many times lost, so that for a long time there was nothing remaining of it remaining among them, till at a later period some men recomposed it out of their own heads... Why is it that in the Mosaic Code one finds no clear indication of either heaven or hell, or of the resurrection or judgement?’71 Leo acknowledged that the Scriptures had been written by Ezra, but declared that the books were exactly like those which had been lost, due to ‘the marvellous work of God’. Umar’s attitude could be dismissed as petulance (‘our beliefs are not there so it must be wrong.’), but the ‘lost’ Scriptures rejected by the Ezra tradition do in fact deal with heaven and hell, resurrection and judgement
Christians acknowledged that parts of the Pentateuch in our possession were forged by someone after Moses - Justin (forget the reference) Pseudo-Clementines (forget the reference) Rufinus says that Origen wrote the Hexapla only to refute the Jews “because they lied, since in our Scriptures a considerable number of passages had been changed, or lacking, or added on.” In 781CE, when the Caliph Mahdi and the Patriarch Timothy debated the two faiths, the Caliph accused Christians of removing from Scripture testimonies to Muhammed. ‘If you had not corrupted the Scriptures, you would have found in them Muhammed as well as the other prophets.’
Jews acknowledge that God could not have written parts of the Pentateuch - b Meg 31b
Israelites might have reason to say that he "counterfeited" Scripture by instructing them to do things which he was not commanded by God - Sifre on Deut 3.23 sect 26, Lev Rabba 31.4
Samaritans say Ezra falsified the Torah - cf M. Seligsohn and E.N. Adler, "Une Nouvelle Chronique Samaritaine", Revue des Etudes Juives, 1902, p. 202. Abu'l Fath says that Dositheus "changed a lot of the Torah, like Ezra", and also composed books of his own.
Karaites accuse Jews of accepting Ezra's authorship of the Pentateuch - The tenth century CE Karaite al Qirqisani ( L Nemoy’s translation of Al Qirqisani’s account of the Jewish Sects and Christianity in HUCA 7 (1930) pp.317-397, p.331) wrote an account of the Jewish sects and their history. He accused the Rabbinic Jews of teaching that Ezra gave a new Torah. ‘They say that the Torah which is in the hands of the people is not the one brought down by Moses, but is a new one composed by Ezra, for, according to them, the one brought down by Moses perished and was lost and forgotten. This is the abrogation of the entire faith. If the Moslems only knew about this assertion of theirs, they would not need any other thing to reproach us with, and use as an argument against us.’ He went on to list the many ways in which the Rabbinic Jews differed from all other Jewish groups, and concluded that they surpassed even the Christians in nonsense and lying. Ezra again.
Muslim takes on the Ezra story - Hava Lazarus-Yafeh notes that “theaccusation that Jews and Christians had falsified their Scriptures (Tahrif) is the most basic Muslim argument against both Old and New Testaments.”Furthermore, tahrif is a “central theme” to theQur’an, “used mainly to explain away the contradictions between the Bible and the Qur’an, and to establish that thecoming of Muhammad and the rise of Islam had indeed been predicted in the uncorrupted ‘true’ Bible.” Intertwined Worlds (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1992),p. 19. The Islamic allegation that the Hebrew Bible had beencorrupted is not primarily an innovation external to the Qur’an. Indeed, a precedent appears to be embedded within Qur’an S. 6.91 which states, ‘And they did not appraise Allah with true appraisal when they said, ‘Allah did not reveal to a human being anything.’ Say, ‘Who revealed the Scripture that Moses brought as light and guidance tothe people? You [Jews] make it into pages, disclosing [some of] it and concealing much. And you were taught thatwhich you knew not–neither you nor your fathers.’ Say, ‘Allah [revealed it].’ Then leave them in their [empty]discourse, amusing themselves.” The notion that the Scriptures were “concealed much” seems to imply that,according to the Qur’an, an act of tampering or obfuscation of the text had presumably taken place. For further insight and examples cf. Qur’an S. 5.13, 41; Lazarus-Yafeh, pp. 20-2
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