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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...

Ancient Near Eastern treaties included sections that laid obligations on the vassal nation. These were called stipulations. They could be general or specific. Chapter 5 initiates the stipulation portion of Deuteronomy, beginning with ten general laws. More specific legislation is presented in the second portion of Moses’ second speech, chapters 12–29:1. It was important that the divine origin of the laws be emphasized. In other ancient
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