Part 1 - Origins of the Human Race and the Early Centuries of Israel’s Life
Chapter 7 - Deuteronomy: Book of Remembrance
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contingent of Israelites, interpret some Hebrew words not as numerical gures but as other designations For example, it is contended that the consonants 1-p should be read as allup, translated “captain,” and not as elep, translated “thousand.” (See J A Thompson, “Numbers,” in The New Bible Commentary, p 169.) Deuteronomy: Book of Remembrance This last book of the Pentateuch records Moses’ addresses to the nation of Israel as they ‘prepared to enter the promised land of Canaan “These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness” (Deut 1:1) The closing words of the book are an epitaph memorializing the great patriarch’s ministry: Since then [the time of Joshua] no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, for all the signs and wonders which the LORD sent him to perform in the land of Egypt against Pharaoh, all his servants, and all his land, and for all the mighty power and for all the great terror which Moses performed in the sight of all Israel (34:10-12) I PREPARATION FOR STUDY Read Deuteronomy 31:24-26 Where were the Levites instructed to deposit the Scriptures which Moses had written? Now read Kings 22:1-13 This action took place more than seven hundred years after Moses wrote the scrolls In what building were the writings found? What was the concern of King Josiah? Read Exodus 20 The Ten Commandments were one portion of the earlier Scriptures which Moses repeated in his Deuteronomy addresses Read the last verse of Numbers (36:13) Compare it with the opening verse of Deuteronomy ... Deuteronomy: Book of Remembrance This last book of the Pentateuch records Moses’ addresses to the nation of Israel as they ‘prepared to enter the promised land of Canaan “These are the words which... to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness” (Deut 1:1) The closing words of the book are an epitaph memorializing the great patriarch’s ministry: Since then [the time of Joshua] no prophet... years after Moses wrote the scrolls In what building were the writings found? What was the concern of King Josiah? Read Exodus 20 The Ten Commandments were one portion of the earlier Scriptures