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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...

desert pilgrims forget to look in the rearview mirror every now and again, even as they lurched forward into the future, Moses reminds them repeatedly, “do not forget!” Like a mantra this phrase resounds throughout the rest of the book of Deuteronomy (4:9, 23, 31; 8:11, 14, 19; 9:7; 25:19). For three chapters then, Moses is describing events that happened “at that time …” back there, back then, past tense, as if to say, “Don’t ever forget!” But, then abruptly the first verse of chapter 4 opens with
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