The Pentateuch has a smooth cohesive literary
structure with each book sharing an essential part of the
history, plot, and
theology of the story.
The author intended the work to be read as a work of history that
recounts what has taken place in the distant past.
The variety of literary genres and devices used were within the larger
context of instructional history
writing about God’s work in their lives.
The literary beauty of the individual books
within the Pentateuch surpassed the skill of redactor(s) mechanically combining a
collection of stories.
Only Moses, who had the literary education in the royal court of Egypt
and who the Lord spoke to as a friend,
had the qualifications and skills to be the
author of the Pentateuch.