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Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 6A: Deuteronomy 1:1–21:9, Revised is unavailable, but you can change that!

For centuries the book of Deuteronomy has been studied as a compilation of three sermons followed by three appendices. In his penetrating new study of this fifth book of the Pentateuch, Duane Christensen argues that “Deuteronomy is best explained as a didactic poem, composed to be recited publicly to music in ancient Israel within a liturgical setting.” Christensen calls readers to understand...

your tents!” in 1 Kgs 12:16, as voiced spontaneously by the people of Judah in response to the demands of Rehoboam, is not a call to arms per se, but rather a dismissal or disavowal of legal obligations (see Christensen, Prophecy and War in Ancient Israel [1989] 44–45; cf. Judg 7:8; 20:8; 1 Sam 13:2 and 2 Sam 20:1; and the discussion of both A. Alt, “Zelte und Hütten,” KlSchr 2:233–42; and A. Malamat, “Organs of Statecraft in the Israelite Monarchy,” BA 27 [1965] 34–65). In that context the people
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