The Pentateuch became indeed a Mosaic. With characteristic wit and insight, Punch in London was moved to observe that the higher critics, using their fertile imaginations with an ingenuity worthy of Scotland Yard, had come to the very learned conclusion that the first five books of the Bible were not written by Moses at all, but by another man of the same name.
Truth has such a nature that every challenge to it is in the end bound to be a vindication of it.
Consequently, while a very large proportion of the findings of the higher critics have long since gone by the board or carry weight only with those who share their sentiments with regard to Scripture, their scholarship was undoubted, and some at least of their findings served to stimulate evangelicals to reexamine the text of some parts of Scripture a little more carefully. It seems likely now that the critics were not altogether wrong in arguing that Genesis bore signs of multiple authorship. Not unnaturally, they took this to mean that these were in reality late documents organized into a single whole and ascribed to Moses in such a way as to give the impression that Moses was indeed their author. No other book has ever taken so long to write. Yet it appears in our hands today to be one book with a single philosophy of history, a single value system in judging human conduct, a single answer to man's need, and a single picture of what God is like.