Commentary on Deuteronomy

Jr. Kaiser Walter C.

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Comprehensive, accessible, and fully illustrated--this commentary on Deuteronomy is a must-have resource.You want a deeper understanding of the Scriptures, but the notes in your study Bible don't give you enough depth or insight. This commentary was created with you in mind.Each volume of The Baker Illustrated Bible Commentary is a nontechnical, section-by-section commentary on one book or section of the Bible that provides reliable and readable interpretations of the Scriptures from leading evangelical scholars. This information-packed commentary will help you gain a deeper understanding of the Bible in your own personal study or in preparation for teaching. It tackles problematic questions, calls attention to the spiritual and personal aspects of the biblical message, and brings out important points of biblical theology, making it invaluable to anyone seeking to get the most out of their Bible study.

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• Publié par: Baker Publishing Group
• Date de parution: 01 octobre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781493424436
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 8 Mo

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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Abbreviations
Introduction
Commentary

1. Moses’s First Sermon: “Look What God Has Done” (1:1–4:43)
A. Introduction (1:1–5)
B. His Command to Go into the Land (1:6–8)
C. Learning from the Sins of the Past (1:9–46)
D. Warning Not to Fight Brethren (2:1–23)
E. Witnessing First Fruits of the Coming Campaign (2:24–3:11)
F. Warning against a Premature Conclusion (3:12–22)
G. Denying Entrance to a Failed Leader (3:23–29)
H. Seeking God with All Our Hearts (4:1–43)
2. Moses’s Second Sermon: “Applying the Decalogue” (4:44–28:68)
A. Focusing on the Core of God’s Guidance (4:44–5:33)
B. Loving God with All Our Might (6:1–25)
C. Defending the Faith (7:1–26)
D. Remembering Not to Forget All God Has Done (8:1–20)
E. Resisting Pride and Self-Righteousness (9:1–10:11)
F. Knowing What the Lord Requires of Us (10:12–22)
G. Keeping the Faith Vital (11:1–32)
H. Honoring God in Our Worship (12:1–31)
I. Extolling the Excellencies of God’s Word (12:32–13:18)
J. Living as People of the Name (14:1–16:17)
K. Appointing Leaders to Lead (16:18–18:22)
L. Upholding the Sanctity of Life (19:1–21:23)
M. Showing Respect for All Forms of Life (22:1–12)
N. Respecting Marriage and Sexual Relationships (22:13–30)
O. Portraying a Caring Community of God (23:1–25:19)
P. Taking Time to Celebrate God’s Goodness (26:1–19)
Q. Renewing the Covenant with Our God (27:1–26)
R. Distinguishing between the Blessings and Curses (28:1–68)
3. Moses’s Third Sermon: “Realizing We Too Were There at Sinai” (29:1–30:20)
A. Hearing the Things Revealed to Them and Their Children (29:1–29)
B. Anticipating the Future for Israel (30:1–20)
4. Epilogue (31:1–34:12)
A. Parting Words for the New Leader (31:1–8)
B. Renewing the Covenant in the Seventh Year (31:9–13)
C. Installing the New Leader (31:14–18)
D. Singing Moses’s Swan Song (31:19–32:47)
E. Preparing to Die (32:48–52)
F. Moses’s Final Blessing (33:1–29)
G. Moses’s Death (34:1–12)
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Abbreviations ANET Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament . Edited by J. B. Pritchard. 3rd ed. Princeton, 1969 BDAG Bauer, W., F. W. Danker, W. F. Arndt, and F. W. Gingrich. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3rd ed. Chicago, 1999 ca. circa (about, approximately) cf. compare chap(s). chapter(s) COS The Context of Scripture . Edited by W. W. Hallo. 3 vols. Leiden, 1997– e.g. for example ESV English Standard Version HALOT Koehler, L., W. Baumgartner, and J. J. Stamm. The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament. Translated and edited under the supervision of M. E. J. Richardson. 5 vols. Leiden, 1994–2000 HCSB Holman Christian Standard Bible i.e. that is KJV King James Version NASB New American Standard Bible NEB New English Bible NET New English Translation NIV New International Version (2011 edition) NIV 1984 New International Version (1984 edition) NJB New Jerusalem Bible NJPS The Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures: The New JPS Translation according to the Traditional Hebrew Text NKJV New King James Version NLT New Living Translation NRSV New Revised Standard Version RSV Revised Standard Version TDOT Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament . Edited by G. J. Botterweck and H. Ringgren. Translated by J. T. Willis, G. W. Bromiley, and D. E. Green. 8 vols. Grand Rapids, 1974– TNIV Today’s New International Version
Deuteronomy
Walter C. Kaiser Jr.
Introduction
For all too many, this book sounds to them like “Duty-onomy.” But how could that be, when Deuteronomy has been praised as the heartbeat and the most influential book of the Old Testament? If we add the testimony of Jesus, Paul, and the early church, Deuteronomy may well be the most significant book in the whole canon of Scripture. In fact, there are some 103 allusions or references to Deuteronomy in the Gospel of John alone. While it represents the climax of the five books of Moses, it is also a prophetic book; Moses was among the first and the greatest of Israel’s prophets.
Title
The English title for this book comes from the Greek translation of Deuteronomy 17:18, which speaks of the king having “a copy of the law.” The Greek Septuagint inaccurately rendered this verse as deuteronomion , meaning “second law.” However, this book is not a second law but a renewal of the covenant Moses made at Mount Sinai, which site is also called Mount Horeb.
Rather than giving a title for each book, the Hebrew Bible follows the ancient custom of naming a book by its opening line. In Hebrew, Deuteronomy starts with, “these are the words”; therefore it was simply called Debarim , “The Words.”

Structure
There are at least three different ways this book can be examined: (1) as the three great speeches of Moses, (2) as a text exhibiting the form of the vassal treaties of the great kings of the second millennium BC, or (3) as an expanded exposition on the Decalogue, the Ten Commandments.

Vassal treaty between the Hittite king Mursili II and Talmi-sharruma of Aleppo (c. 1300 BC). [ Copyright © Baker Photo Archive. Courtesy of the British Museum. ]
Using the repeated rhetorical markers of “These are the words” (1:1), “This is the law” (4:44), and “These are the terms” (29:1), it is possible to detect the three key speeches/sermons of Moses, each with a distinct focus: learning from history (1:1–4:43), explaining the law of God (4:44–28:68), and renewing the covenant (29:1–30:20).
The archaeological discovery of some fifty to sixty extrabiblical treaties of sovereign kings with their vassal kings from around 1400 BC has provided us with echoes of a similar structure for Deuteronomy. Especially significant have been the Hittite treaties from the second millennium BC, whose patterns are paralleled section for section in the same order as those in Deuteronomy. Hittite Treaty Deuteronomy A Preamble—The King Who Makes the Treaty 1:1–5