TheBook of Deuteronomywas written during the Israelites' wanderings in the wilderness, just before they entered the Promised Land. The name "Deuteronomy" comes from the Greek word "Deuteronómion," which means "second law," reflecting the book's focus on the repetition and reiteration of divine...
Moses' story begins in the Book of Exodus, which finds the Israelites enslaved in Egypt by a new pharaoh after they had gone to Egypt to escape famine during Joseph's story in the Book of Genesis. His story ends in the Book of Deuteronomy, the last book of the Torah, with his death...
The books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy discuss the relationship between God and His chosen people, the Hebrews, and give details of the Law that regulated almost every aspect of Hebrew life. The remainder of the books of the “Hebrew Bible” (the Christian “Old Testament”) are divided by ...
the law of Moses. Genesis told the ancient Israelites that God had befriended their ancestors, promised them a land, and had a plan to bless the world through them. But the story of Genesis is really just the grand prologue to Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Together...
God protected the Edomites (Deuteronomy 23:7). Edom was subject to Jacob/Israel as foretold by Isaac (1 Samuel 14:47), at least for a little while (2 Kings 8:16-22). Both Jeremiah and Ezekiel spoke agains Edom (Jeremiah 49:17-18) (Ezekiel 25:12-14). ...
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s journey. And the author punctuates many of these episodes with a new set of laws given to the people. Numbers doesn’t have the big, bulky sets of laws we see in the latter half of Exodus, Leviticus, and almost the whole of Deuteronomy—but there’s still plenty of rules in here....
This article, following the lead of the biblical archaeologist and historianW.F. Albright, presents a point of view that falls somewhere between these two extremes. While the essence of the biblical story (narrated between Exodus 1:8 andDeuteronomy34:12) is accepted, it is recognized that, dur...
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