Thank-you
@rosends for providing a source. I personally find it easy to accept that first opinion is the accurate one. Though I have also just read that Eleazar the high priest at the time may have been an alternate to Joshua being used to write the closing remarks.
I found this interesting...
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Pentateuch — Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY
Writership. There is no single text saying that Moses wrote the entire Pentateuch, but scattered throughout the material are explicit statements serving the same purpose. (
Ex 17:14; 24:4; 34:27; Nu 33:2; De 31:9, 19, 22, 24-26) There are also many sections where the words are directly credited to Moses, beginning with his first recorded conversation (
Ex 2:13, 14), continuing to his final blessing on the people (
De 33:1-29), and including some of his lengthy speeches (
De 1:1; 5:1; 27:1; 29:2; 31:1) and notable songs. (
Ex 15:1-19; De 31:30–32:43) The opening verses of 20 out of 27 chapters of Leviticus tell us that what follows are the words of Jehovah spoken to Moses so he, in turn, could inform the people. The same is true in more than 50 instances in the book of Numbers. So, with the exception of the closing verses of Deuteronomy, the evidence within the Pentateuch itself shows that its writership properly belongs to Moses.
Many other passages in the Bible witness to the fact that the Pentateuch was from the hand of Moses. (
Jos 1:7; Jg 3:4; 2Ki 18:6; Mal 4:4) Such men as David (
1Ki 2:1-3),
Daniel (9:11),
Ezra (6:18),
Nehemiah (8:1), Jesus (
Mr 12:26; Lu 16:29; Joh 7:19),
Luke (24:27), and
John (1:17) make references to this work as that of Moses. More directly to the point, Jesus acknowledged that Moses was the
writer (
Mr 10:3-5; Joh 5:46, 47), as did also the Sadducees.—
Mr 12:18, 19.
....but no amount of evidence is enough for some people. Whether that remains true for those posting in this thread remains to be seen.
