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🗓️ 31 January 2016
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Modern scholars have identified a single school behind all the books from Deuteronomy to Kings. This school wrote the histories of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, putting its own theological slant on that history.
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0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Gary Stevens, and welcome to the History in the Bible podcast. |
0:24.8 | All the history, in all the books, in all the Bibles. |
0:45.6 | Thank you. Episode 1.23, God's Historian. |
0:51.7 | With Deuteronomy, we finish the Torah, the five books attributed to Moses. |
0:59.0 | These books have been at the very centre of Jewish identity since at least Hellenistic times. In Christianity they hold a somewhat less exalted position, |
1:03.0 | coming well after the New Testament in Sanctity. |
1:07.0 | If you accept the traditional notion that Deuteronomy was the last book to have been composed by Moses, |
1:14.6 | and that it is all of a piece with Genesis through Numbers, much of Deuteronomy is baffling. |
1:21.6 | The story of Moses comes to an end in Numbers. |
1:25.6 | Moses impending death is confirmed. |
1:28.7 | The land of Canaan is allocated, |
1:31.2 | and Joshua is appointed his successor. |
1:34.2 | We look forward to the climax, the conquest. |
1:38.0 | But then Deuteronomy begins the story anew. |
1:42.3 | Deuteronomy differs in style, in terminology and in theology from the previous four books. |
1:49.0 | In those books, an anonymous narrator recounts the history of the world, then describes how God acts and speaks through Moses. |
1:58.0 | They are third-person narrative. |
2:04.2 | In Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers, |
2:08.4 | Israel receives all its laws from God at Mount Sinai. |
2:12.4 | God is described as living in the tabernacle, |
2:14.9 | enthroned on the winged cherubim, |
2:19.2 | his feet on the mercy seat that is the ark's golden cover. |
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