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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...

of the parenesis of Deuteronomy 5–11, and its place in the book as a whole. Interpretation of Chapters 5–11 As we saw with ch. 4, there is a greater continuity between chs. 5–11 and the preceding material than is usually allowed. It is my proposal that this phase of the text should be read as an unbroken hortatory scheme, building on the theology of the opening four chapers. Chapters 1–3 and 4 are, in many ways, distinct from the smooth rhetorical movement which can be seen in chs. 5–11. After the
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