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Word and Presence: A Commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this commentary Ian Cairns presents Deuteronomy as a slowly evolving, complex composite—as legal code, as treaty text or covenant, as Moses’ farewell speech, and as the final volume of the Pentateuch. Despite Deuteronomy’s structural complexity, however, Cairns shows how the theme “Word and Presence” permeates the entire book: God is the living Presence who can be encountered and known through...

The former leads to manipulation of the divine for human ends, the latter to grateful human submission to the divine ends. To “hold fast” (dabaq) to Yahweh is typical Deuteronomic terminology (e.g., Deut. 4:4; 10:20; 11:22; Josh. 22:5; 2 Kgs. 18:6). In everyday language it means to “stick” (2 Sam. 23:10) or “stick close” (Ruth 2:8, 21). “Sticking” to Yahweh implies a bond of intimacy resulting in love, service, respect, and obedience. The past tense “I have taught you” is interesting. Clearly
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