I’ve checked both the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary entry for Gilgal by Wade R. Kotter (1992) and the Anchor Commentary on Joshua by Thomas B. Dozeman (2015) and both agree the site of this Gilgal (there are several mentioned in different locations) currently remains unknown. The summary in the Dictionary reads:The only OT clue to…

The closest parallel is Habakkuk 3:10This is one of the examples of the chaoskampf typology depicting Yahweh as a storm god battling against the primordial waters:Töyräänvuori, Joanna. “Weapons of the Storm God in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Traditions.” Studia Orientalia 112 (2012): 147–80. There are also allusions to the weapons of the storm god…

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Introduction 📜Walter E. Rast writes on the work with its’ dating:“New ground was broken in the literary study of Joshua when the German scholar Martin Noth proposed that the book of Joshua was part of a large historical work from Deuteronomy through 2 Kings. Noth termed this work the ‘Deuteronomic History,’ since he held that…

In the Bible, however, adultery is in fact punishable by stoning (Deut. 22:20-24; see Lev. 20:10), whereas the Qur‘an prescribes a lighter punishment for this offence, namely a hundred lashes (Q. 24:2). Stoning as a punishment for adultery is not mentioned in the Qur‘an itself, but can be found in the tradition literature (hadith) and…

Henry McKeating observed that there are intriguing parallels between the contents of the book of Ezekiel and the story of Moses in the Pentateuch. Following the proposal which had earlier been made by Jon Douglas Levenson, McKeating argued that the character of Ezekiel fulfils the Deuteronomic prophecy concerning a prophet like Moses (Deut 18:15–22). In…

[] Ⅰa – Context First, let us look at Deut 22:22 says: If a man is found lying with a woman, another man’s wife, then the two of them shall die, the man lying with the woman and the woman too. And you shall purge out the evil from Israel. So the case presented in…

Deuteronomy 7.1-6 calls for the annihilation of the nations

Deuteronomy is largely a series of speeches by Moses, given on the brink of the promised land. (He was not allowed to enter Canaan; see Num. 20:12.)The first five verses of Deuteronomy present the entire book as a third-person account about Moses. Thus in 1:5 we read, “Moses undertook to expound this law as follows,”…

This seems to align well with the general halakhic principle of ḥumrot which prefers a more restrictive application of Torah commandments to avoid their potential violation (the “fence around the Torah” principle). An early example of this is the rendering of Leviticus 24:16 in the LXX which motivates the restriction on pronouncing the divine name…

Heiser argues for the same position as Paul Sanders in The Provenance of Deuteronomy 32 (Brill, 1996), and both make good arguments about the form of the infinitive, the object relation of גוים (are the nations given as an inheritance or are they the ones who inherit), the function of the adversative marker, as well…