The Divine Legation of Moses
work by Warburton
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William Warburton's The Divine Legation of Moses (1737–41) aimed to demonstrate the divine authority of the Mosaic writings using deist principles. Warburton sought to prove that the Hebrew Bible, particularly the Torah, was divinely inspired, a concept that deists, who emphasized reason and natural law, often questioned. The work is considered a significant, though controversial, contribution to theological and literary criticism of its time.12
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