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).