There is a theological difference in much of Deuteronomy than there was in the other books of Moses.

The Deuteronomist eliminate the key aspects of the First Temple.

They edit the history to align with their own new theology.

Exodus says, if you're going to sell your daughter into slavery and the master wants to marry her, then she doesn't get to go free in six years. You take your ear to the doorpost and your master

will bore a hole and if you have a gold hoop in your ear, that means you are a servant for life.

When materialism is someone's focus and one marries someone who loves the things of

this world more than the things of God, they take the hearts of their family. These Israelites,

as they are preparing to enter into the promised land, are promised something amazing. And the Lord

promises these Israelites that if they keep his commandments, no man or woman among them would be

me. Hello, welcome back to Scripture Central. I'm Lynn Hilton Wilson, part of the team who wants to build

enduring faith in Jesus Christ

by illuminating and defending our scriptures.

And in the Old Testament, as we look at the women, I want to focus on these handmaidens and haroens and harems and in Deuteronomy.

We don't have any named women we've got some Hebrew slaves we've

got daughters of other nations we've got barren females and fertile females we've got women in the

covenants and I also want to start out with just a little brief overview of the book of

Deuteronomy for just a minute you know is Deuteronomy the way Moses wrote it or a later editor?

You know, this is very interesting because we always call the first five books of Moses,

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, the Torah.

This is the Pentateuch, as if Moses had them all compiled together.

But there is a theological difference in much of Deuteronomy

than there was in the other books of Moses. And a lot of scholars, Margaret Barker and many others,

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