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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...

can be traced to von Rad’s (1966: 131–143) exclusion of creation theology from Israel’s earliest formulations of its faith. (Brueggemann later modified his position on this; 1997: 159–164.) Gunton (1993: 22–24) has shown, in the context of Greek philosophy, how the attempt to understand the world as a unity, in a challenge to the plurality of traditional gods, gave rise to the danger of seeing ‘god’ simply as ‘an unchanging principle of order’. In politics, a ‘unitary deity, whether theist or deist,
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