כמאן אזלא הא דא"ר יהושע בר אבא אמר רב גידל אמר רב שמונה פסוקים שבתורה יחיד קורא אותן לימא (ר"י היא) ודלא כר"ש אפילו תימא ר"ש הואיל ואשתנו אשתנו:
Now is it possible that Moses being dead could have written the words, 'Moses died there'? The truth is, however, that up to this point Moses wrote, from this point Joshua wrote. This is the opinion of R. Judah, or, according to others, of R. Nehemiah. Said R. Simeon to him: Can [we imagine the] scroll of the Law being short of one word, and is it not written, Take this book of the Law?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXXI, 26. And this was said by Moses before he died.
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Rashi on Bava Batra
Ḥizkiyah and his faction – the children of his generation whose days after him were extended.
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wrote Isaiah – who Menashe murdered, and thus he did not write his own book, for none of the prophets would write their books until before their deaths.
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Proverbs and Ecclesiastes – as it is written in the Book of Proverbs (Prov. 25:1) "which Ḥizkiyah's men copied" etc - for Ḥizkiyah made them study Torah as it is written in the section (B. Sanhedrin 94b) "He inserted a sword at the entrance of the study hall... etc" so they called the matter after his name.
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The men of the Great Assembly —Ḥaggai, Zekharya, Malakhi, Zerubavel, and Mordekhai and their comrades.
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they wrote Yeḥezkel — for he prophecied in exile. And I do not know why Yeḥezkel didn't wrote it himself, if not because prophecy is not allowed to be written outside of the Land, so they wrote them after they came to the land. And thus the book of Daniel, which was in exile, and thus the Scroll of Esther and the Twelve of whose prophecies were minor — the prophets did not write it together, but rather each wrote their own book, and Ḥaggai, Zekharya, and Malakhi came and saw that the Holy Spirit was withdrawing, that they were the last prophets, and they arose and wrote their prophecies and attached the minor prophecies with them, and made them a great big that would not be lost because of their small size.
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until his – until his own genealogy.
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This accords with... ...until he established his genealogy – that he wrote Chronicles until he established his genealogy.
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And who finished it – and who finished it Rashi translates the Aramaic into Hebrew here.
