Original sentence: Mosaic authorship was accepted with very little discussion by both Jews and Christians until the 17th century, when the rise of secular scholarship and the associated willingness to subject even the bible to the test of reason led to its rejection by secular academia, so while modern Talmudic scholars maintain it was dictated by God in its entirety to Moses, modern secular scholars opine that the Torah is the product of many hands, stretching over many centuries, reaching its final form only around the 6th and 5th centuries BCE
Edited sentence: Mosaic authorship was accepted with very little discussion by both Jews and Christians until the 17th century, when the rise of secular scholarship and the associated willingness to subject even the bible to the test of reason led to its rejection by mainstream biblical scholars, so while modern Talmudic scholars maintain it was dictated by God in its entirety to Moses, modern secular scholars opine that the Torah is the product of many hands, stretching over many centuries, reaching its final form only around the 6th and 5th centuries BCE