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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 the prologue to the laws Moses tells the people how and why the laws were given to him. God began to give them laws forty years earlier, at Horeb (Mount Sinai). After they heard the Decalogue, they were so terrified that they asked Moses to receive God’s further instructions on their behalf, promising to obey whatever he conveyed to them. The laws that Moses is about to convey to the people now, forty years later,
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