Fascinating look at the Torah’s authorship

Of course, some will state unequivocally that the Torah is the literal word of God or at least that the text is divinely inspired. Others that Moses wrote the five books. Alternatively, Straight Dope reports in

Who wrote the Bible? (Part 1), there is an academic school of thought called Documentary theory which lays out a timeline of authorships. Part 5 lays out some information on how the Torah (and the Christian Bible) came to be standardized. Very interesting.