Actually, the exact opposite is true. The Torah was written long before the events it describes ever took place—in fact, before the Creation itself.
Actually, the exact opposite is true. The Torah was written long before the events it describes ever took place—in fact, before the Creation itself.
Well, now you’re just getting into all that “rift in the time space continuum” stuff. :-)
Perhaps, but this is nevertheless the traditional understanding. The Torah came first and the creation is somehow derived from it. There is even one view that G-d brought the universe into being by speaking the opening words of Genesis.