The Judaist scholars say differently. Dr. Kastein, for instance, says that the Torah was ―the work of an anonymous compiler‖ who ―produced a pragmatic historical work.‖ The description is exact; the scribe or scribes provided a version of history, subjectively written to support the compendium of laws which was built on it; and both history and laws were devised to serve a ―political purpose. ―A unifying idea underlay it all,‖ says Dr. Kastein, and this unifying idea was tribal nationalism, in a more fanatical form than the world has otherwise known. The Torah was not revealed religion but, as
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