childeroland
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@KalMart. Nope, it certainly does not.
@Shemtov. Again (I think again) we don't know what the book Josiah came up was -- probably an early version of the Deutoronomic History -- so we can't know if it claimed to be written in 1200 BCE or what precisely was in it that Josiah would have had to explain -- including any version of the Exodus story, for example. In any event, the Torah as we know it today was likely composed centuries later.
The editing of Ezra, and perhaps Nehemiah -- they were originally one book, you probably know -- went on well past 326 BC, may have originated about 458 BC, and has such a complex history of editing using more than one single theology that I would hesitate to point at the absence of something in the text(s) as anything like proof. For all we know, the composer(s) of the book originally had no notion of Josiah discovering the "lost" Torah intact in the temple and thus had no need to explain its being lost and discovered.
@Shemtov. Again (I think again) we don't know what the book Josiah came up was -- probably an early version of the Deutoronomic History -- so we can't know if it claimed to be written in 1200 BCE or what precisely was in it that Josiah would have had to explain -- including any version of the Exodus story, for example. In any event, the Torah as we know it today was likely composed centuries later.
The editing of Ezra, and perhaps Nehemiah -- they were originally one book, you probably know -- went on well past 326 BC, may have originated about 458 BC, and has such a complex history of editing using more than one single theology that I would hesitate to point at the absence of something in the text(s) as anything like proof. For all we know, the composer(s) of the book originally had no notion of Josiah discovering the "lost" Torah intact in the temple and thus had no need to explain its being lost and discovered.