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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...

feelings and desires at God’s service and conform them to God’s will. “Might” (Heb. me˒od) literally means “muchness,” “exceedingness,” “intensity.” In 2 Kgs. 23:25 Josiah’s “turning … with all his might” is described, in the context of 2 Kgs. 23, as a single-minded endeavor to establish everything required by God’s torah and to eliminate everything forbidden by it. Me˒od then is a single-minded, love-inspired zeal and determination to realize the whole will of God. The “words” (Deut. 6:6)
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