Commentary for Bava Batra 28:12
ומי כתבן משה כתב ספרו ופרשת בלעם ואיוב יהושע כתב ספרו ושמונה פסוקים שבתורה שמואל כתב ספרו ושופטים ורות דוד כתב ספר תהלים על ידי עשרה זקנים ע"י אדם הראשון על ידי מלכי צדק ועל ידי אברהם וע"י משה ועל ידי הימן וע"י ידותון ועל ידי אסף
and Job. Joshua wrote the book which bears his name and [the last] eight verses of the Pentateuch.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Recording the death of Moses. ');"><sup>19</sup></span> Samuel wrote the book which bears his name and the Book of Judges and Ruth. David wrote the Book of Psalms, including in it the work of the elders, namely, Adam, Melchizedek, Abraham, Moses, Heman, Yeduthun, Asaph,
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And the passage of Bilaam – His prophecies and parables, although they were not his. Moses and his Torah used them with the order of his deeds.
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and eight verses – From "And Moses died" (Deut. 34:5) to the end of the book.
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Shmuel wrote his book and the book of Judges – For they came before him, and he rose and wrote their book, and what happened to Israel in their days, and also Ruth because it was in the days of the judges.
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by hand of ten elders – He wrote in it things that these elders had said who were before him, and some were in his days like Asaph and Heiman and Yedutun of the Levite singers.
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by the hand of First Adam — such as, "My unformed body Your eyes saw... how weighty Your purpose is to me" (Psalm 139) — First Adam wrote it.
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by the hand of Malki-Ẓedek – "Said the LORD to my lord, [sit at my right hand]" and all that psalm (Psalm 110).
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and by the hand of Avraham – as we have said above, Eitan the Ezraḥite is Avraham.
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and by the hand of Moshe – "A prayer of Moshe" (Psalm 90) and all the eleven psalms in its order (Psalm 90 – 100).
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and by Heiman "A maskil of Heiman" (Psalm 88)
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and by Yedutun "For the leader, of Yedutun" (Psalm 77)
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