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Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy , book of the Bible, literally meaning "second law," last of the five books (the Pentateuch or Torah) ascribed by tradition to Moses. Deuteronomy purports to be the final words of Moses to the people of Israel on the eve of their crossing the Jordan to take possession of Canaan.... Read more |
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Ten Commandments
Ten Commandments or Decalogue [Gr.,=ten words], in the Bible, the summary of divine law given by God to Moses on Mt. Sinai. They have a paramount place in the ethical system in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Listed in the books of Exodus and Deuteronomy, the commandments are divided into... Read more |
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Julius Wellhausen
Julius Wellhausen , 1844-1918, leading German biblical scholar of the 19th cent. He is recognized for his documentary hypothesis that sought to account for both the composition of the Pentateuch (Genesis-Deuteronomy) and for the evolution and history of Judaism. His Prolegomena to the History of... Read more |
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Joshua
Joshua , book of the Bible. It is the first book of the Deuteronomic history (Joshua-2 Kings), in which the theological outlook of the Book of Deuteronomy is used to explain the fate of Israel. As it stands in the canon, Joshua is the historical sequel to Deuteronomy, recounting the invasion and... Read more |
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Josiah
Josiah or Josias , in the Bible. 1 King of Judah, son and successor of Amon. The great event of his reign came in its 18th year, when the book of the law, apparently Deuteronomy , was found in the Temple. Josiah had it read publicly, and a reform movement began, led by the young king. The... Read more |
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Imagination
IMAGINATION. The idea of imagination is sometimes thought of as a product of the Enlightenment. However, although it only came to full flower in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, its roots are much more ancient. Biblical Beginnings Given the stern admonition of the second... Read more |
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Shema
Shema a Hebrew text consisting of three passages from the Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 6:4, 11:13–21; Numbers 15:37–41) and beginning ‘Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord’. It forms an important part of Jewish evening and morning prayer and is used as a Jewish... Read more |
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Kings
Kings books of the Bible, originally a single work in the Hebrew canon. They are called First and Second Kings in modern Bibles, and Third and Fourth Kingdoms in the Greek versions, where the books of Samuel are called First and Second Kingdoms. First and Second Kings cover the period c.1000... Read more |
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Mishna
Mishna , in Judaism, codified collection of Oral Law—legal interpretations of portions of the biblical books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy and other legal material. Together with the Gemara, or Amoraic commentary on the Mishna, it comprises the Talmud . Next to the Scriptures... Read more |
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Samuel
Samuel two books of the Bible, originally a single work, called First and Second Samuel in modern Bibles, and First and Second Kingdoms in the Septuagint . They are considered part of "Deuteronomistic history," in which the book of Deuteronomy functions as the interpretive key for... Read more |
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Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy Biblical book, fifth and last of the Pentateuch or Torah. It contains three discourses ascribed to Moses, which frame a code of civil and religious laws. |
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idols
...empty (Isaiah 44: 14–17), dead, or even demonic (Deuteronomy 32: 17).Archeological and textual evidence suggests that...making representations of the divinity (Exodus 20: 4–6; Deuteronomy 4: 15–19; 5: 6–9; Leviticus 26: 1), fight... |
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Old Testament
...many examples of prophetic writing, poetry, and short narrative tales. It comprises the Pentateuch or Torah (Genesis to Deuteronomy); the Historical Books (Joshua to I and II Kings); the Wisdom Books (Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes); the Major... |
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heart, broken
...emotions also resided in their bowels. Elaborately metaphorical use of language relating emotions to the body appears in Deuteronomy 10: 16: ‘Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.’ Ancient Greek and Roman hearts... |
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virginity tests
...virginity’ (i.e. blood-stained sheets) in public; inability to do so resulted in the bride being stoned to death (Deuteronomy 21: 13–21). The custom was still recognizable in early modern England. Katherine of Aragon kept her wedding sheets... |
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
...felines as Growltiger, Mr. Mistoffelees, Gus: The Theatre Cat, Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town, Cat Morgan, and Old Deuteronomy, “a cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme A long while before Queen... |
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Tetrachordon
...on divorce, published 1645. It deals with the four sets of passages on marriage and nullities in marriage from Genesis, Deuteronomy, St Matthew, and the First Epistle to the Corinthians. Milton seeks to reconcile the passages and to prove their essential... |
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Pentateuch
...as the Torah (Law). The Pentateuch comprises the five Old Testament books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Composed over a very long period (possibly 1000 years or more), they were probably collected in their present form during... |
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Silsbee, Joshua
...H. Hill and Dan Marble. By the time Silsbee made his New York debut in 1843, his characterizations of Lot Sapsago, Deuteronomy Dutiful, Jonathan Ploughboy, and other similar roles were his stock in trade. In 1850 he went to England, where for a... |
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Jewish Drama
...East, who never achieved a permanent stage, their plays being for reading only.Drama was not indigenous to the Jew. Deuteronomy 22: 5 expressly forbade the wearing of women's clothes by men, and the connection between early drama and the idol... |
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Deuteronomy, book of
Deuteronomy, book of The fifth book in the Pentateuch. There is a dramatic account...supposed that the book allegedly discovered was an early form of the book Deuteronomy, or part of it.The book is part law and part prophecy. The aim of... |
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Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy •fumy, gloomy, plumy, rheumy, roomie, roomy, spumy •excuse-me • mushroomy • perfumy...anomie • antinomy •agronomy, astronomy, autonomy, bonhomie, Deuteronomy, economy, gastronomy, heteronomy, metonymy, physiognomy, taxonomy... |
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Deuteronomy, Book of
Deuteronomy, Book of. The last Book of the Pentateuch. It contains Moses' final utterances, consisting essentially of seven mainly legislative... |
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Shavuʿot
...diaspora) and is one of the three pilgrim festivals (see Deuteronomy 16. 16). It falls fifty days after the first day of Passover...wheat harvest. The first fruits were brought to the Temple (Deuteronomy 26. 1–11), and in rabbinic times the festival also... |
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Mezuzah
...scroll attached to the doorposts in Jewish houses. According to Deuteronomy 6. 9, Jews are commanded to write the words of God upon...fulfilled by fixing a small container, with the words of Deuteronomy 6. 4–9 and 11. 13–21 written on parchment inside... |
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Pentateuch
...each book): Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. The Pentateuch contains the history of the Jewish people...of the united kingdom (i.e. 10th cent. BCE), while Deuteronomy was produced in the 7th cent., and the Priestly source... |
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Imitation of God
Imitation of God. Jewish way of expressing the human obligation to imitate God in his actions (Deuteronomy 10. 12). The detail is found in Genesis 3. 21, Genesis 18. 1, Leviticus 16. 1, and Deuteronomy 34. 6. |
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Torah
...Leviticus 7. 2) or the summation of all laws (e.g. Deuteronomy 4. 44). It is also used to refer to the Pentateuch in contrast...make Israel ‘a kingdom of priests, a holy nation’ (Deuteronomy 33. 4). In a famous exchange Hillel summarized Torah in... |
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Jesus
...Acts 7. 11 f.). This (as an offence) goes back to Deuteronomy 17. 8–13, which states that an obstinate teacher (see REBELLIOUS...to hand Jesus over to the Romans for the punishment which Deuteronomy requires is uncertain; the charge then would have involved... |
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agronomy
...misogamy, monogamy •hypergamy • alchemy • Ptolemy •anomie • antinomy •agronomy, astronomy, autonomy, bonhomie, Deuteronomy, economy, gastronomy, heteronomy, metonymy, physiognomy, taxonomy •thingummy • Laramie • sesame •blossomy •anatomy... |
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Bible
...companion, guide, primer, vade mecum; rare enchiridion.Books of the Bible Old Testament Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy Joshua Judges Ruth 1 Samuel 2 Samuel 1 Kings 2 Kings 1 Chronicles 2 Chronicles Ezra Nehemiah Tobit Judith Esther 1 Maccabees... |
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DEUTERONOMY 6-8 AND THE HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION: AN EXPOSITION ON THE FIRST...
Deuteronomy has been hailed one of the most important...significance is particularly highlighted in Deuteronomy 6-8, which emphasizes the themes...Since the nineteenth century, however, Deuteronomy, and chapters 6-8 in particular... |
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Deuteronomy 1:1-21:9
Deuteronomy 1:1-21:9. By Duane L. Christensen...2001, cxii + 458 pp., $34.99; Deuteronomy 21:10-34:12. By Duane L. Christensen...in 1991 with the publication of just Deuteronomy 1-11 as Volume 6A. Subsequently the... |
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Deuteronomy 1:1-21:9/Deuteronomy 21:10-34:12
Deuteronomy 1:1-21:9 by Duane L. Christensen Word...CHRISTENSEN'S completed Word Commentary on Deuteronomy, replacing his former first volume (1991), which covered Deuteronomy 1-11. The new commentary develops the thesis... |
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The JPS Torah Commentary: Deuteronomy
The JPS Torah Commentary: Deuteronomy, by Jeffrey H. Tigay. Philadelphia...extensive critical commentary on Deuteronomy is determined by the program of...introduction (pp. xi-xxxi: themes in Deuteronomy, issues of historical-critical... |
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CTH 133 and the Hittite Provenance of Deuteronomy 13
...dominant view in scholarship has been that Deuteronomy 13 is a composition of the seventh century...norms exist between the apostasy laws of Deuteronomy 13 and the disloyalty provisions set...In patterning the laws of apostasy in Deuteronomy after the Neo-Assyrian sedition ... |
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Now Choose Life: Theology and Ethics in Deuteronomy
...Choose Life: Theology and Ethics in Deuteronomy. By J. Gary Millar. New Studies...Oxford, was entitled The Ethics of Deuteronomy, and who coauthored with J. G. McConville Time and Place in Deuteronomy (JSOTSup 179), was at the time... |
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The Book Within the Book: Writing in Deuteronomy
...The Book Within the Book: Writing in Deuteronomy, by Jean-Pierre Sonnet. Biblical...Pierre Sonnet's study of the book of Deuteronomy, a revised dissertation completed at...as depicted in the narrative world of Deuteronomy, as well as the book's communication... |
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The vision of Deuteronomy 15 with regard to poverty, socialism, and...
...achievement would not contradict the vision of Deuteronomy 15:11 because the verse should be...the world conforms to the vision of Deuteronomy 15:4 that there could be no poor from...absolute perspective. Thus, the vision of Deuteronomy 15 with regard to poverty is a ... |
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Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy. By J. G. McConville. Apollos Old...00. J. G. McConville suggests that Deuteronomy "should be seen, in the context of...defense of that thesis. Arguing that Deuteronomy is not just law or history but rather... |
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Deuteronomy 21:10-34:12
Deuteronomy 21:10-34:12. By Duane L. Christensen...first volume published by Christensen on Deuteronomy (1991) was not too well accepted by...do his own research in some area of Deuteronomy finds an extensive, though sometimes... |
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