Isaac de la Peyrere, the french Calvinist, Spinoza, the philosopher from Holland, Richard Simon, a french convert pointed out that the addition of Moses law were written by scribes who collected, arranged and elaborated upon the old texts. Friedman explained that according to Simon, the scribes were the prophets guided by holy spirits and he viewed his writing as an explanation of the holiness of the biblical text. However, his contemporaries evidently were not ready for a work because he said that any part of the five books was not written by Moses. Because of that Simon was dismissed by Catholic and of his thirteen hundred copies printed,but all six were burned.
