Related Papers
“A Missional Reading of Deuteronomy: Communities of Gratitude, Celebration, and Justice.” In Michael W. Goheen, ed. Reading the Bible Missionally. Eerdmans, 2016.
Mark R Glanville
Highland Park, IL: The Middle Coast Press
Deuteronomy: A new translation with commentary
2020 •
William Whitt
This translation of Deuteronomy follows a similar approach to my translations of Genesis and Samuel. In this, as in my other translations, my priority was always to express the ideas in the text in the most natural way in English, and at the same time to capture the energy and rhythm of the original Hebrew. Compared with my other translations, this translation is "freer" and departs further and more frequently from the literal meaning of the text. This is especially true for the many laws in the middle portions of the book, which are written in a legalistic prose style that I could only reproduce by employing a more formal semi-legalistic vocabulary and syntax. One unique aspect of this translation is that it jettisons the traditional chapter divisions and instead organizes the material according to the Masoretic parashot. Organizing the text in this way gets us closer to the ancient writers, and yields numerous insights into their composition approach. The commentary accompanying the translation focuses primarily on issues of translation and language. After the commentary I provide an essay that summarizes my views on the composition history of Deuteronomy and that assigns each of the parashot to one of the four major compositional stages that I identify, which span a period of nearly three hundred years, from the late seventh century to the mid fourth century BCE. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike International 4.0 license. The full text can also be downloaded at the Internet archive at https://archive.org/details/deuteronomy_202008/mode/2up. The print edition of this book is available at: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1733441573/
Australasian Pentecostal Studies
The Good News of Deuteronomy for All Creation: A Pentecost/al Rehearing
2021 •
Rick Wadholm Jr.
The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology
From Condemnation to Righteousness: A Christian Reading of Deuteronomy
2014 •
Jason S DeRouchie
This paper provides a thematic overview of Deuteronomy's message within the framework of whole-Bible theology. It argues that Moses would have agreed with Paul that the old covenant bore a ministry of condemnation in the hope of a new covenant that would bear a ministry of righteousness. Messiah Jesus is the telos of Deuteronomic hope and the one through whom Deuteronomy itself bears a lasting message for the new covenant church.
Reading Acts
Bill T. Arnold, The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapters 1–11 (NICOT). Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2022
2022 •
Phillip J . Long
Bill Arnold’s new commentary on Deuteronomy 1-11 replaces Peter Craigie’s 1976 commentary in the New International Commentary on the Old Testament series. In 2020, Arnold joined Robert L. Hubbard as the editor of this important commentary series. Arnold in the Paul S. Amos Professor of Old Testament Interpretation at Asbury Theological Seminary since 1995 and has contributed many articles and monographs on the Old Testament. He co-edited Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books (IVP Academic, 2005). In the eighty-seven-page introduction Arnold suggests Deuteronomy can rightly be called a compendium of the most important ideas of the Old Testament. “It crystallizes the themes and messages of the first four books of the Bible, while at the same time it establishes the theological foundation for the books of history and prophecy to follow” (1). The message of the book is without question: the exclusive worship and faithfulness to YHWH Israel’s God.
A Closer Examination of Deuteronomy
2011 •
Akiva Wolff
examines using the principle of bal tashhit as an approach to addressing current environmental problems. He also has a M.A. in Energy and Environmental Studies from Boston University and a B.S. in Soil Science from the University of Florida. In between these studies, he has been privileged to learn in a number of yeshivot and kollelim in the Holy City of Jerusalem, where he resides with his wife and children. A CLOSER EXAMINATION OF DEUTERONOMY 20:19– 20
Jerome Biblical Commentary, 3rd ed (Bloomsbury T&T Clark)
New Jerome Biblical Commentary on Deuteronomy
Don C Benjamin
Deuteronomy not only describes the struggle of Israel during the Iron Age to understand what it means to be the people of YHWH, but also guides other ancient and existing faith communities facing identity crises of their own. The Yahad Community at Qumran was still studying Deuteronomy as the 36 copies of Deuteronomy among some 800 Dead Sea Scrolls testify – equal to Psalms and more than Isaiah (21x). Jews today read Torah as part of daily prayer. Deuteronomy provides the Torah readings for the 11 weeks leading to the Simchat Torah holyday following Rosh Hashanah. The New Testament refers to Deuteronomy 39 times -- less only than Psalms (80x) and Isaiah (56x). The descriptions of the kingdom of heaven in the Gospel of Matthew and the kingdom of God in the Gospels of Mark and Luke also mirror an ideal community similar to the Israel which Deuteronomy envisions. More than 20 Christian communities today, who use the Revised Common Lectionary, proclaim Deuteronomy on 10 Sundays and on some 20 other days during the liturgical year. Although social encyclicals like Rerum Novarum (1891) by Leo XII, Quadregesimo Anno (1931) by Pius IX and Progressio Populorum (1967) by Paul VI do not cite Deuteronomy, they nonetheless reflect a similar concern for human rights. The Qur’an does not cite, but does know, Deuteronomy (Q 2:67-73; 2:178; 4:164; 5:45; 6:146; 7:144; 46:10; 110:1). Moses promulgates Deuteronomy; Muhammad recites the Qur’an. The furqan which ‘Allah gives Moses (Q 2:53; 3:3; 21:48; 25:1) is probably Deuteronomy (Q 2:185; 8:29+41;). Both Muhammad and Moses follow only one divine patron (Q 16:9; 17:2; 25; 28:56; 37:4). Both leave a last will and testament (Q 5:1-119). Deuteronomy does not invite Jews, Christians and Muslims today to mimic the lives of the people of YHWH long ago. In Deuteronomy, Moses himself transforms the received traditions of Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers and applies them to new situations. Deuteronomy invites people of faith to craft lives of gratitude in all the aspects of daily life addressed by its instructions -- to embrace a life of selfless gratitude modeled by Moses and reflected in the sufferings of Jeremiah (Jer 11:18-23) and of the Servant of YHWH (Isa 52:13—53:12). Like pregnant mothers their labor births new worlds where the cosmos envisioned by YHWH is completed and even the powerless can survive. Only those who remember their own sufferings well enough are compassionate. With remarkable candor the people of YHWH remember that they were once landless slaves (Exod 1:7—7:13), childless parents (Isa 7:14) and insignificant creatures (Isa 41:14), and that only selfless gratitude for what YHWH has done – and is doing every day in every aspect of daily life -- can create the shalom which brings women and the land to life so that the entire community can choose life for themselves and their descendants (29:1—31:29).
Review of Biblical Literature
Review of The Epic of Eden: A Christian Entry into the Old Testament
2011 •
Russell L Meek
Interpreting Deuteronomy: Issues and Approaches
2012 •
David Firth
Interpreting Deuteronomy: Issues and Approaches is the fruit of the 2011 Tyndale Fellowship Old Testament Study Group and the third in a series of books devoted to current “issues and approaches” in OT books (following Interpreting the Psalms [2005] and Interpreting Isaiah [2009]). It is not intended to serve as an introduction to the book nor to engage with “scholarly minutiae,” but rather to “bridge the gap” between the two (p.14). This collection of essays thus assumes a basic knowledge of Deuteronomy and Deuteronomy scholarship and draws the reader deeper into the themes and issues found in this theologically rich book.
Nathan MacDonald (University of Cambridge), Review of Eckart Otto, Deuteronomium 1-11 (Review of Biblical Literature 01/2016)
2018 •
Eckart Otto
In recent decades Eckart Otto has been one of the leading and most prolific contributors to scholarship on Deuteronomy, as well as a leading figure in the study of biblical law; consequently the publication of the first volumes of his commentary is a major landmark in the study of Deuteronomy. The first two volumes cover only the opening eleven chapters of the book, with the rest of the commentary scheduled to appear in 2016. The scope of the commentary is staggering. The introduction alone runs to over two hundred pages, most of which is an exhaustive account of research on Deuteronomy from Richard Simon to the present; the remaining eight hundred pages of these first two volumes is devoted to just the first eleven chapters of Deuteronomy. If Otto gives the same amount of attention to the rest of the book, the final commentary will run to about 2,500 pages.
