Deuteronomy
More a contract than a prayer.
Renewing the covenant.
Renewing the covenant.
Samuel Pepys goes to shul.
Covenantal love, erotic love, or both?
One of the Bible’s most important and most overlooked ideas.
Over a century after its discovery.
Making sense of the Torah’s final chapter.
Too much harmony can be a problem.
Only if read selectively and inaccurately.
According to Deuteronomy, if a married man dies childless, his brother is obligated to marry the widow—in a union otherwise forbidden. This practice, known as. . .
The furor over the 19th-century “discovery” of an ancient fragment of Deuteronomy says much about the influence on scholarship of scholars’ ideas, prejudices, and worldviews.
Deuteronomy warns that material wellbeing can lead to self-satisfaction and moral complacency. The antidote? Gratitude and generosity.
