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When Jesus was asked what the greatest commandment was, he cited a passage from Deuteronomy 6 as the fundamental and first tenet of Scripture. The purpose of Deuteronomy is to teach the people of God how to behave in every area of life. And the two main principles of that teaching are to fear God and to obey his commandments. Using his own translation from the original Hebrew, Dr. John Currid...
A few recent studies, however, have gone against the mainstream. Some have attempted to demonstrate that the book of Deuteronomy is not a literary mishmash of various laws haphazardly thrown together. On the contrary, Deuteronomy is a highly structured, well-formulated and symmetrical piece of work. In this regard, two works deserve to be mentioned: S. A. Kaufman’s ‘The Structure of the Deuteronomic Law’10 and J. H. Walton’s ‘Deuteronomy: An Exposition of the Spirit of the Law’.11 The basic view
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