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By John E. Harvey

The Deuteronomistic Historian patterned greater than 4 dozen of his narratives after these in Genesis-Numbers. The tales that make up Genesis-Numbers have been indelibly inspired at the Deuteronomistic Historian's brain, to such an quantity that during Deuteronomy-Kings he tells the tales of the country in the course of the lens of Genesis-Numbers. John Harvey discusses the 8 standards that could be used as facts that the given tales in Deuteronomy-Kings have been in line with these in Genesis-Numbers. Unified money owed within the Deuteronomistic historical past, for example, usually percentage impressive parallels with or extra redactional layers in their corresponding bills in Genesis-Numbers, exhibiting that the given bills within the Deuteronomistic heritage have been written after the corresponding bills in Genesis-Numbers were written. in addition, the Deuteronomistic Historian calls the reader's realization to debts in Genesis-Numbers by way of explicitly bringing up and bearing on them, through the use of own names, and by way of drawing thematic and verbal parallels. Retelling the Torah, the 1st publication to target those parallel narratives, includes far-reaching implications for Hebrew Bible scholarship. this can be quantity 403 within the

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1. 43 But there is little to support this conclusion. This phrase appears elsewhere in the DtrH,44 as does 'command of the LORD' L45 These facts undermine any dogmatic attribution to P. That Deut. 5 is Deuteronomistic is evident, first, from 'and Moses the servant of the LORD died there' . This is parallel to Judg. 8, 'and Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died' . Apart from 2 Chron. 46 There are therefore good reasons to attribute the given elements in Deut. 1, 5 to Dtr and to conclude that Deut.

See Halpern 1988: 194-96. 1. Dtr 's Use of His Torah in Deuteronomy 1-3 31 DtrH, yet he could state that '[o]nly those recurrent phrases that express the essence of the theology of Deuteronomy can be considered "deuteronomic"'. But surely it is reductionistic to suppose that every Deuteronomistic text must express 'the theology' of Dtr. Contending that those narratives that do not use Deuteronomistic language cannot be Deuteronomistic amounts only to a non sequitur, for they may simply pertain to matters that are not expressly theological.

11 Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods ... doing wonders? Deut. 24b What god is there who can do such works ... as yours? But most pronounced is the parallel between Exod. 16-17 and Deut. 24a, 25: Exod. 16-17 (16) Terror and dread fell upon them; through the majesty of your arm they are still as stone; till your people cross over , O LORD, till this people cross over whom you have ransomed. (17) You will bring them and plant them in your own mountain . Deut. 24a, 25 (24a) You have begun to show your servant the works of your majesty and your mighty hand...

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