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The Nine Commandments: Uncovering the Hidden Pattern of Crime and Punishment in the Hebrew Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

In a book certain to be as controversial as Harold Bloom’s The Book of J and Elaine Pagels’s The Gnostic Gospels, David Noel Freedman delves into the Old Testament and reveals a pattern of defiance of the Covenant with God that inexorably led to the downfall of the nation of Israel, the destruction of the Temple, and the banishment of survivors from the Promised Land. Book by book, from Exodus to...

areas. It would seem that the order common in the days of Jeremiah listed commandments six through eight as follows: theft, murder, adultery. This was the order that turns up in Jeremiah’s sermon in the temple courtyard.11 The Deuteronomistic Historian was closely linked both temporally and spatially to Jeremiah, which explains why Jeremiah’s sixth, seventh, and eighth commandments are violated in the sixth, seventh, and eighth books of the Primary History: Joshua, Judges, and Samuel. The Autograph
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