Hi all
You are basically correct kat
The torah is timeless
G-d told moses in written and oral forms the year signified by the year
of simchat torah
Approx 3300 yrs ago
There fore what you see written was dictated to moses
And oral torah was memorised
Ie mishna/gamara was memorized
It started to be forgotten
Then it too was written down..............
http://www.chabad.org/holidays/jewishnewyear/default.asp
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If you're talking the original Torah (first five books of the Old
Testament), it is thousands of years old as oral tradition. The priests
of Israel probably started putting it into writing during King David's
reign and it was likely finalised during Babylonian times in Hebrew.
(Meir, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about any of this).