Deuteronomy: A Commentary (The Old Testament Library) by Gerhard von Rad

By Gerhard von Rad
This statement on Deuteronomy meets and exceeds the excessive criteria of the outdated testomony Library sequence. It offers the most subtle reasons to this point of the compositional procedure that produced Deuteronomy, proposing that method as a mixture of large-scale redactional job and "micro-redaction." The statement can be responsive to the old historical past of Deuteronomy's origins within the reigns of Manasseh and Josiah. The clean translation that heads every one part is by means of insightful linguistic reviews that spotlight Deuteronomy's recognized homiletical and didactic style.
The outdated testomony Library presents clean and authoritative remedies of vital elements of outdated testomony learn via commentaries and normal surveys. The members are students of foreign standing.
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