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In this outstanding commentary J. Gordon McConville offers a theological interpretation of the Old Testament book of Deuteronomy in the context of the biblical canon. He gives due attention to historical issues where these bear on what can be known about the settings in which the text emerged. His dominant method is one that approaches Deuteronomy as a finished work. McConville argues that in...

with the story so far sees immediately that what is to come will have a certain resumptive character. This is because of the brief allusive recapitulation of the journey through the wilderness of Sinai, with only a few tantalizing geographical details. True to the announcement in the first verse, the book then consists largely of Moses’ speeches, and the narrative as such hardly progresses. The end of the book is as definitely marked as the beginning, with its report of the death of Moses, which,
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