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Deuteronomy has been aptly described as a book “on the boundary.” It addresses the possibilities of new life “beyond the Jordan” as dependent upon Israel’s keeping of the law and acknowledgment of Yahweh’s supremacy. Moses leaves the people with his last will and testament that would ensure their success and well-being in the new land. In this completely new volume on Deuteronomy in the Tyndale...

while preserving much of the wording of the original law (Nelson 2002: 5). The reader is reminded yet again of the dramatic staging of Deuteronomy as an address delivered on the verge of entry into the land. Also, if, by the translation ‘second law’, the Septuagint (LXX) could mean repeated law,1 or completed law,2 then this, in some measure at least, aligns with the suggestion that Deuteronomy is a re-presentation of the law of Sinai, in the form of an exposition or expansion of Mosaic law. The
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