in the mid-6th century BCE) mean when they speak of the "torah of Moses". In later books such as Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah the meaning had expanded to include the other laws such as Leviticus, and by the Hellenistic period, Jewish writers referred to the entirety of the five books, narrative and laws, as the Book (or books) of Moses.

Authorship was not considered important by the society that produced the Hebrew Bible (the Protestant Old Testament),