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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...

INTRODUCTION The laws of Deuteronomy have deservedly commanded the particular attention of many students of the book.1 This is no doubt due to the feet that a study of them leads into diverse and important areas of OT research, such as the nature of OT law, the character of Israel’s cult, and critical issues concerning Deuteronomy itself. Perhaps above all they lead into questions of wider pentateuchal criticism (which on most estimates began in Deuteronomy2) and thence the plotting of Israel’s
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