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This book focuses on the relation between the law of the Old Testament and the nature of God and of grace. Asserting that the laws are a result of theology, and not the other way around, McConville acknowledges Deuteronomy as a book of history and documentation of law, but also believes it gives great insight into the character of God. He begins his study with an introduction to the general...

school’ from the sacral-religious groupings which produced P.40 It is true that there are areas of religious life in Israel to which Deuteronomy does not address itself in detail. There is no mention, for example, of the ḥaṭṭā’t or ’āšām sacrifices; nor is there any treatment of the role of the priests in the sacrificial system. This feature of the law-book which Dtr. adopted exerted considerable influence, in Noth’s opinion, on the view of cult which is enshrined in the deuteronomistic history.
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