Deuteronomy 5 - Introduction

DEUTERONOMY 5-11. MOSES'SECOND ADDRESS. This contains laws (Deuteronomy 5:6) and (mainly) exhortation based on the fundamental conception of Yahweh's uniqueness. This discourse had probably an independent origin, but it is exceedingly homogeneous, and conforms throughout with the type of composition... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 5:1-21

Yahweh's covenant (Deuteronomy 4:13 *) with Israel at Horeb (Deuteronomy 1:2 *) and its obligations (Deuteronomy 5:6). With D's version of the Decalogue (Deuteronomy 5:6) compare the earlier form in Exodus 20:1 * (E). Wellhausen is wrong in holding that there is a third (an older) version in Exodus... [ Continue Reading ]

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