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Deuteronomy: An Introduction and Commentary (Woods) is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

codified law as such (von Rad 1953: 15). This may readily be seen when compared with much of the common material found in the Book of the Covenant (Exod. 20:22–23:19), and also with the Holiness Code (Lev. 17–26), which replicates the parenetic (expository) style of Deuteronomy. However, Deuteronomy stands alone within the Pentateuch in calling itself ‘Torah’ (tôrâ), or ‘instruction’, relating more specifically to ‘covenantal law’ (Dumbrell 2002: 66). In the first section of Deuteronomy it is called
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