How did Moses know all the events present in book of Genesis?

[Ndegwahumble]

If Moses wrote the book of Genesis, How did He know all the information including adam,abraham etc yet he was not alive at that moment?

 

[KevinK]

Is there any evidence Moses wrote Genesis?

 

[KnightTemplar]

I think the first five books of the Old Testament have been credited to Moses, but nowadays there seems to be doubt as to whether or not he truly wrote them. But regardless of what books he did or did not write and whether or not it is disputed if he wrote them, the answer to your question would be that all Scripture is inspired by God, so God could have easily let Moses know what had happened or what he was supposed to write.

 

[straykat]

I think they come from a Mosaic tradition, but it’s obvious there’s been some edits (like anachronisms in location names… where certain cities are named a current way for the reader, when that name didn’t exist in Moses’ time). You could chalk this up to the Jews also having a living tradition, in the same way the Church does.

Mosaic authorship wasn’t even ascribed until the apocryphal book of Jubilees, which is fairly late and after the Exile. After that, the Jews of Jesus’ age and the Church simply called the Torah the books of Moses because they’re either Mosaic in content or based on the laws he gave.