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Time and Place in Deuteronomy (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, Vol. 179 | JSOTS) is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book is a literary and theological study of the themes of time and place, which aims to set the so-called “centralization-law” of Deuteronomy 12–26 in the broad context of the book. The authors show that time and place are pervasive themes of Deuteronomy, a crucial part of its articulation of its understanding of history, religion and ethics. The heart of the thesis is that the foundational...

preaching of Moses. Initially 4:9 calls those listening to Moses’ discourse to remember ‘the things that you have seen with your own eyes’. In view of the recent demise of the Kadesh generation, and in context in ch. 4 this refers most naturally to the events at Baal-Peor. However in v. 10 Israel is called to ‘Remember the day you stood before Yahweh your God at Horeb’. The glaring problem is that if we take 1:35 and 2:14 seriously, none of them did experience the Horeb theophany. Here Moses is employing
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