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Actually, according to Jewish doctrine and tradition, the entire Torah was dictated to Moses by God Himself on Mount Sinai (that is the Five Books of Moses). The Prophets and other parts of Scripture were written with Divine Inspiration. But to our firm belief, the Torah, in its entirety, was authored by God Himself. So there would be no margin for error there.
Not my doctrine, not my Rabbi's doctrine, and certainly not the doctrine of such respected institutions as the JTS and HUC.
Would you care to tell me what your doctrine is?
Please elaborate.
The only Rabbinic deliberations that existed were those of the great commentators on the Torah and the Oral Law (which defines and explains the different characteristics of the commandments written in the Written Law, a.k.a the Five Books of Moses). For example, Orthodox Jews wear something called Tefillin during morning prayers (those black boxes that we wear on our heads and arms; they contain parchment with certain passages from the Torah in them). But the Written Law doesn't describe what they are supposed to look like or how they are supposed to be made. The Oral Law (which was passed down orally from generation to generation from Mount Sinai, which God taught to Moses and had Moses teach it to the Jewish people) describes exactly what Tefillin is supposed to be made of and looks like, and it describes countless other commandments. The Rabbinic disputes came about when the Oral Law seemed to become more and more vague to the following generations, largely do to restrictions on teaching Torah that the Greeks and Romans imposed on us. The Oral Law was written down (which was technically not supposed to happen) in a series of organized topics of Jewish law called the Mishnah. Even that became vague over further generation lapses, and the Talmud was written to explain the Mishnah. The Talmud is largely made up of the Rabbinic deliberations as to what the Mishnah really means and why the Mishnah came to its conclusions about its laws. However, no Rabbinic deliberation ever questioned the Divine origin of the Written and Oral Law being dictated to Moses at Mount Sinai. All the deliberations were all about was trying to understand, as generations grew further and further away from the Giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai and persecution continued throughout those generations, what the details of the Torah's laws were.
