The Size of Moses’ Torah:

Jews mention that Moses (peace be upon him) advised “Joshua” to write the Torah again on the stones of the Altar, saying: “And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaster them with plaster. And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law.”[1]

Joshua fulfilled the advice as is mentioned in the Book of Joshua: “And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel…. And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.”[2]

The Torah claims that Joshua “wrote the whole of the Torah on the wall according to the advice of Moses (peace be upon him), which is enough proof and evidence to confirm that the original Torah was so small in size that Joshua was able to inscribe it on the stones, while the Torah that the Jews have today is so lengthy that it would require several times the amount of those stones to write it down on them. This indicates that the Torah has been exposed to additions, corruptions and alterations. The present Torah consists of “a group of books that amount to 39.”[3]

“The French Scholar and Physician (Maurice Bucaille) in his book (The Study of the Holy Books in the Light of Modern Sciences) says that the theologian ‘Edmond Jacob’ in his studies of the Old Testament mentions that till the third century B.C. there had not been a single text of the Torah.”[4] The main cause was the persecution the Jews were subjected to at the hands of the Chaldeans, Babylonians, Persians, Greek, etc…

What sort of Torah would have remained? What alternative to Allah’s Book did Ezra write?