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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...

This paragraph is virtually a paraphrase of Deut. 5:31–33. The repetition underlines the importance of the teaching about to be presented. In ch. 4 we have already met the term hattorah, signifying the totality of teaching viewed as a unitary whole (see above on 4:8, 44). Here (and in 5:31) “the commandment” (Heb. hammitswah) is used in a parallel sense. The two terms indicate an advanced stage
Pages 83–84
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