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Chargement... The Book of Deuteronomy: A Preacher's Commentary (Epworth Commentary)par R. E. Clements
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The Book of Deuteronomy stands as a milestone within the Bible of both Jews and Christians. As the fifth of the great books of Moses it links the biblical tradition to the birth of civilization in the ancient Near East, formulating a system of laws which relate to the earliest of humankind's written law codes. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Clements locates the composition of Deuteronomy in the Exilic period, and hence argues that the laws, and in particular the blessings and curses need to be seen in the context of Israel's coming to terms with the disaster of the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile.
Clements does not gloss over some of the dificulties of the text - such as the harshness of some of the punishments and the seemingly horendous instructions surrounding warfare, but tries to discover what the underlying purpose of these texts is.
His comments for preachers are generally brief but insightful.
Overall this is a very useful little book to have on the shelf. My only real quibble is the lack of refernces when Clements refers to scholarly debates ( )