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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...

In all this the significance of Moab itself is a little puzzling. There is little evidence of any interest in discovering the precise setting of the Mosaic discourse either inside or outside the Canon. Moab itself gets a reasonable degree of attention in the Old Testament, but almost all of this is condemnatory. So why the concentration on Moab in the preaching of Moses? The answer is probably very simple. George Adam Smith pointed out the geographical suitability for Moab as a place from which to
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