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In this comprehensive commentary on Deuteronomy, Tigay handles the often complex text with the skill of a master scholar. Within the line-by-line commentary are elaborations on specific textual, historical and social issues that oftentimes continue through many pages. This is above and beyond the 33 excursuses to the commentary, the extensive footnotes and the helpful charts and maps. Jeffrey H....

In form, Deuteronomy consists of farewell discourses and poems that Moses delivered to Israel in the last weeks of his life, and brief narratives about his final activities: commissioning Joshua as his successor, writing down the discourses, and Moses’ death. Deuteronomy may be outlined as follows (the discourses and poems are represented in italics): I. Heading (1:1–5) II. Prologue: First Discourse (1:6–4:43) A. Retrospective: The journey from Horeb to Moab
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