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What is your evidence that their history was oral, passed down "word-of mouth"? Moses wrote part of Genesis and the rest of the Torah himself, that is beyond question (except for the JEDP conspiracists). Some contend that the rest of Genesis could have been penned by as many as 10 different authors, possibly including Adam himself.

In any case everything we know about modern history was penned by either eyewitnesses, or people who have researched the events and penned their own accounts. The Bible is no different, except that God has guided the recording process, to keep it error free. Just because we don't have the reference materials that Moses used, does not mean they did not exist!

Who wrote Shakespears plays? We don't have the original manuscripts, so perhaps they were handed down by oral tradition as well.