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- The principles governing the Deuteronomic historian’s presentation of Israel’s history are set forth in the book of Deuteronomy: faithfulness to Yahweh and obedience to his commands bring blessings; the worship of foreign gods and negligence of Yahweh’s statutes bring a curse; Yahweh can be worshiped in only one sacred place (Jerusalem) by all Israel; priests, prophets, and kings are subject to Yahweh’s law granted through Moses.
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At the center of Deuteronomy is a collection of laws, which make up the terms of the covenant between God and Israel (Deut. 12-26). Some are new, but many are repeated from the laws given at Mount Sinai. This is actually where the book gets the name “Deuteronomy,” from the Greek word deuteronomion, which means “a second law ...
- The Extensive Range and Types of Curses in Deuteronomy 28
- Total Destruction Or Political Destruction
- Sin and Punishment: Past and Future Generations
- Reflecting on The Past to Underscore The Future
- Israel’s Choice
- An Eternal Moment of Pseudo-Choice
- Joshua’s Bargain
Deuteronomy’s list borrows, paraphrases, and elaborates on formulae from ancient Near Eastern vassal treaties in a way that enabled it to exceed them in length, density, variegation, and creative viciousness. The Deuteronomist indulged in a spectacular rhetorical display, with an abundance of lively, sensual descriptions of calamities that will be ...
Deuteronomy 28 does not present its threats in a linear, intensifying fashion; indeed, total destruction is threatened towards the beginning of the list: Destruction (shmad < שׁ.מ.ד)—total loss (ovdan < א.ב.ד), used here as synonyms, together with the verb “ending” (“I will put an end,” akhale < כ.ל.ה), communicate finality, the culmination of the ...
The curses are set as part of Moses’ speech to the wilderness generation, and thus in the distant past, reflecting on the future: Here the presentation is from cause to effect: if they violate the covenant at some point in the indefinite, uncertain future, they will be punished with these curses. Later, the text tells the story in the other directi...
Throughout the early part of Moses’ speech earlier in Deuteronomy, before the introduction of the Deuteronomic law collection, Moses reminds the Israelites of their past sins. Thus, Deuteronomy retells the story of the spies, the golden calf, and also makes quick reference to other sins such as: The recollected events are narrated as examples for t...
Moses’s Deuteronomic address, delivered to the Israelites on the eve of their entry into the land, anticipates and establishes the perpetuity of the Israel’s subjection to YHWH’s rule. In this, YHWH was no different from any other suzerain in the ancient Near East, or ever since. The people as a multitude and as a nationare placed at a juncture in ...
While Deuteronomy’s narrative audience comprises people who experienced or heard eyewitness accounts of these wilderness period sins, for the literary audience, i.e., the intended readers of the book of Deuteronomy, these events are from the ancient past. And while the curses in chapter 28 are in the narrative audience’s distant future, for the lit...
The simulation of choice at the center of the covenant ceremony is presented more explicitly at the end of Joshua’s final speech, where, after telling the Israelites that they may no longer worship their ancestors’ gods, he continues (using the same temporal deictic rhetorical technique): The people respond adamantly that they are committed to serv...
The book of Deuteronomy is the last of the five books of Moses, known as the Pentateuch. Deuteronomy naturally follows the book of Numbers. Numbers ends with Moses and the Israelites in the land of Moab, on the east side of the Jordan River overlooking the land of Canaan. The book of Deuteronomy picks up the story by recording Moses’ final ...
Aug 30, 2022 · War. Of all the harsh behavior in warfare known from the ancient Near East, Deuteronomy’s requirement that Israel slaughter all the inhabitants of Canaan is unique. In all likelihood, the law sought to suppress Israel’s inclination to idolatry. | Prof. Mordechai Cogan.
Jun 29, 2004 · Kenneth Boa and Bruce Wilkinson appropriately call this book “Moses’ Upper Desert Discourse.” 136. Deuteronomy is the account of this generation of Israelites embracing the covenant of God with their fathers as their own, of their entering into a covenant relationship with God. This is the renewal of the covenant:
Deuteronomy 10:12-13. 12 “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear [and worship] the Lord your God [with awe-filled reverence and profound respect], to walk [that is, to live each and every day] in all His ways and to love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul [your ...
Apr 6, 2012 · Thus the disruption of Israel’s covenant-relationship with Yahweh sets the theological stage for Deuteronomy in that Israel cannot enter into the Land and take possession of it without Yahweh’s blessings which are conditioned on the nation walking in covenant-relationship with him.
