Tag: Deuteronomy 18:15-22
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Reflecting on Deuteronomy 18 15-22
We are studying Deuteronomy 18:15-22 for Sunday, March 7. [Some notes on the text are here.] This is the last paragraph in a larger section of Deuteronomy that deals with authoritative roles within the ancient Israelite community. That larger section begins at Deuteronomoy 16:18. The parallel structure of that section of the text pairs the…
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Studying Deuteronomy 18 15-22
We are studying a particularly historically contentious text, from the standpoint of the history of interpretation, for Sunday, March 7: Deuteronomy 18:15-22, which includes the promise of a “prophet like Moses” and a test for authenticating non-false prophets. We’ll need some extra sensitivity to “contexts of interpretation” for this one, I expect. [Some questions on…
Matters of Interpretation 