The table below presents two contradictory verses/verselets. Both verses speak about the Revelation. The underlined words highlight the contradiction. One verse/verselet says Moses gave the book of the convenant during the preparation for the revelation, while the other verse/verselet says God gave the Torah at the Revelation. We see the contradiction Which is it? Was the Torah given before or at/after the Revelation. If before the Revelation, then what was given at the Revelation! Rashi simply resolves this using the 2 Aspects method: a) Moses gave written Pre-Sinaitic revelations prior to the Revelation - during the preparatory phase right before the revelation. The Pre-Sinaitic revelations included the creation stories, the commandment of circumcision, the other Genesis stories, and the few commandments given to them at Marah such as Shabbos. b) The revelation brought with it (or over the next 40 years) the rest of the Torah.

Summary	Verse / Source	Text of verse / Source
Moses presented the book of the Convenant during the preparation for Revelation	Ex24--01:07	And he said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, you, and Aaron,... And Moses alone shall come near the Lord; but they shall not come near; nor shall the people go up with him. And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord has said will we do. And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, ... And he sent young men of the people of Israel, who offered burnt offerings, .... And Moses took half of the blood, .... And he took the Book of the Covenant, and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, All that the Lord has said will we do, and obey.
The Torah was given at Revelation.	Ex24-12	And the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there; and I will give you tablets of stone [10 commandments], and the Torah, and commandments which I have written; that you may teach them.
Resolution:	2 Aspects	a) Moses gave written Pre-Sinaitic revelations prior to the Revelation - during the preparatory phase right before the revelation. The Pre-Sinaitic revelations included the creation stories, the commandment of circumcision, the other Genesis stories, and the few commandments given to them at Marah such as Shabbos. b) The revelation brought with it (or over the next 40 years) the rest of the Torah.

Advanced Rashi: It might be appropriate to discuss certain aspects of the heretical cricism of the Bible. Using archaelogical and linguistic methods it is shown that portions of the Torah are written much earlier than 2048 BC when the Torah was given. Since these passages have styles from significantly older periods it is argued that they were not given at the time of the giving of the Torah.

But there is no orthodox position that Moses wrote the entire Torah. For example the chapter on circumcision was clearly written by Abraham who was also a prophet dictating God's words - Abraham wrote this chapter 400 years earlier. Similarly Adam probably wrote the story of Paradise and the expulsion since Adam was a prophet. Adam's prophecies are 2000 years older than the Torah.

What the orthodox position claims is that Moses is the final prophetic authority. True Abraham wrote the chapter on circumcision but we today observe this commandment because Moses finalized it (at the word of God) and included it in the final Torah.

The giving of the Torah is a statement about the final binding authority to prophetic revelation - it is not a statement of authorship or original versions. So we should expect that portions of the Torah have styles from an earlier period. Such discoveries support, not contradict, the orthodox position.