The Origination of Holy Scriptures

Speaking generally

Script was not required in the Bronze Age - 20,000 BCE - 6000 BCE
which is defined by an oral-based agricultural economy
with society divided by clan totemism
ruled by petty clan chiefs.

Clan chief's spoken words were law
heard by all physically during clan harvest gatherings.

Oral based mythological claims of divine totemic sanctification
together with superstitious claims
regarding ancestral spiritual intervention with the weather Gods
with psychically gifted shamans acting as mediums
sealed clannish spiritual unity

The Bronze Age ended in fertile regions
when population pressures
escalated petty clan border disputes into outright war,
despotic warlords forced eventual clan federation
and the formation of the first national mind-sets.

For national union to remain binding
despotic rule was essential
in order not revert to individual totemic arguments of Divine favor,
a rigid Scriptural orthodoxy of laws
largely based on early oral-based mythological explanations
regarding Divine origination
was needed to rule the Union
and give the paramountcy Divine rights of succession.
A learned priest caste emerged
as interpreters of the inspirations of the early Scribes