Dan Wees:
“Do you find the mention of the ‘five books of Moses’ in 1 Nephi 5:11 to be anachronistic?”
Dan Vogel:
“The problem is Deuteronomy is a forgery that was pretended to have been found in the temple walls after the Jews returned from Babylon. This was obviously long after Lehi left.”
Instant Messages, 9 February 2017
Wikipedia:
“[T]hat the book was a forgery created to help centralize power under Josiah, is held today among some Biblical scholars.”