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On Jordan’s Stormy Banks: Lessons from the Book of Deuteronomy is unavailable, but you can change that!

Deuteronomy is perhaps the last book in Scripture that Bible readers would select for in-depth study. However, Deuteronomy is, in many ways, key to understanding the entire biblical corpus; it has even been described as Scripture’s theological center. On Jordan’s Stormy Banks explores these claims, as well as how Deuteronomy addresses our deepest human longings. For all those who have ever stood...

clarify the old laws of Exodus suggests that the book of Deuteronomy, already when inserted here, was no doubt understood to be a replacement for the earlier versions. As we will see, the importance of Deuteronomy, a second version of the law (Torah), lies in its updating function. Precisely because of its redundancy, its repetitions, its updating function, some scholars have argued that the book of Deuteronomy is one of, if not the, most important book in the Old Testament. Others have called it
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