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A close reading of the Deuteronomic Code (Deuteronomy 12-26) shows this legal collection to be a commentary of sorts on the earlier collecti...

There are four distinct, self-contained collections of laws found in the Hebrew Pentateuch – the "books of Moses": Genesis, Exo...

Second temple Judaism was not a religion of works righteousness . Judaism was always – and still is – a religion of electing grace and cov...

The rhetoric and teaching methods of Jesus and Paul are best understood as part of the emerging rabbinic movement that would come to domin...

Adopted from J. A. Thompson's The Significance of the Ancient Near Eastern Treaty Pattern . In 1954, G. E. Mendenhall (1954) recog...

Encoding the Covenant Law in the Bible (Part 4 of 4)             The compilation of written law codes in the ancient Near East is we...

Law Codes             Along with literary writings, many of the political writings uncovered from the ancient world have proven relev...

Creation Texts             One of the most important literary themes in the ancient Near East was cosmogony (i.e., the story of how t...

The Origin and Development of Writing             The first indisputable examples of writing appear on clay tablets and were found at...

          Hilkiah, a priest, made a critical discovery relatively early in the reign of Josiah of Judah. The discovery of a scroll during ...

The upshot of all this is that there are several theories about the date of Deuteronomy’s literary composition, some of them compatible wi...

Evangelicals have long had a struggle with the authorship of the books in the Pentateuch. Because they are called the “Books of Moses” a...