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Deuteronomy has been a controversial book for at least the last 120 years. At that time what is known as the critical school developed which insisted that the book could neither have been written at the time of the exodus and wandering nor could it have been written by Moses. Hall has cogently and thoroughly defended the conservative position which holds to the traditional view which the book...

be cleared from the land promised to the fathers so that chosen Israel can maintain her purity. The structure also shows that the chapter is a unit and should not be divided up and connected with other chapters.3 Furthermore, each of the parallel units is related to the other by repetition of key words. The first and last sections share “destroy totally” (vv. 2 and 26), “many; nations; clear away” (vv. 1 and 22), “possess” (vv. 1 and 17), “give” (vv. 2–3 and 23–24), “destroy” (vv. 4 and 23–24),
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