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Deuteronomy |
Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible and of the Old
Testament, and the fifth of five books of the Jewish Torah or Pentateuch.
A large part of the book is three sermons delivered by Moses reviewing the
previous forty years of wandering in the wilderness and the future entering into
the Promised Land. Its central element is a detailed law-code by which the
Israelites are to live within the Promised Land.
Theologically the book constitutes the renewing of the covenant between Yahweh
and the "Children of Israel."
One of its most significant verses is Deuteronomy 6:4, which constitutes the
Shema, a definitive statement of Jewish identity: "Hear, O Israel: YHWH (is) our
God, YHWH alone."
Conservative Bible scholars are united in their conviction that Moses wrote this
book. Much of modern critical scholarship, while agreeing that Deuteronomy
contains a core of material from ancient Mosaic traditions or writing, dates the
book several centuries after Moses time, to the late 7th century BC. This latter
view sees Deuteronomy as a product of the religious reforms carried out under
king Josiah, with later additions from the period after the fall of Judah to the
Babylonian empire in 586 BC.
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