Deuteronomy (Ancient Greek: Δευτερονόμιον, romanized: Deuteronómion, lit. 'second law'; Latin: Liber Deuteronomii) is the fifth book of the Torah (in...
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Deuteronomist (redirect from Deuteronomic History)
chapters (12–26) of the Book of Deuteronomy, or to the broader "school" that produced all of Deuteronomy as well as the Deuteronomistic history of Joshua, Judges...
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Old Deuteronomy is a character in T. S. Eliot's 1939 Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and its 1981 musical adaptation, Cats. He is a wise and beloved...
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Ten Commandments (redirect from Deuteronomy 5 Decalogue)
text of the Ten Commandments was dynamic in ancient Israel and appears in three markedly distinct versions in the Bible: at Exodus 20:2–17, Deuteronomy 5:6–21...
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The Deuteronomic Code is the name given by academics to the law code set out in chapters 12 to 26 of the Book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible. The code...
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obedience to the commands of Moses as found in the Book of Deuteronomy.: 162 The Book of Joshua takes forward Deuteronomy's theme of Israel as a single people...
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Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image (redirect from Deuteronomy 5:8)
wək̲ol-təmûnāh) is an abbreviated form of one of the Ten Commandments which, according to the Book of Deuteronomy, were spoken by God to the Israelites...
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Simchat Torah (redirect from Rejoicing of the law)
only time of year on which the Torah scrolls are taken out of the ark and read at night. In the morning, the last parashah of Deuteronomy and the first...
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Hoshana Rabbah (category Hebrew names of Jewish holy days)
portion cycle, the book of Deuteronomy is about to be completed the following days on Simchat Torah. In addition, many read the entire book of Psalms. It is...
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Deuteronomy 22 is the twenty-second chapter of the Book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. The book is one...
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expressed in the book of Deuteronomy (which thus provides the name "Deuteronomistic"). Noth believed that this history was the work of a single author...
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Gilgal (redirect from Circumcision of the Israelites)
between the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, near Ma'ale Adumim. In the Book of Deuteronomy 11:29–30, Gilgal is a place across from Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal...
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The Bible and violence (section Book of Deuteronomy)
narrative of the Book of Deuteronomy the divine command to commit 'genocide' is explicit. Fourth, genocide and mass slaughter follow in the Book of Joshua...
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Moses (redirect from Criticism of Moses)
and the Book of Deuteronomy another.[citation needed] Moses has traditionally been regarded as the author of those four books and the Book of Genesis...
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Ki Tavo (redirect from Deuteronomy 28)
Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the Book of Deuteronomy. It comprises Deuteronomy 26:1–29:8. The parashah tells of the ceremony of the first...
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Mount Horeb (category Book of Deuteronomy)
Book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible. It is described in two places (the Book of Exodus and the Books of Kings) as הַר הָאֱלֹהִים the "Mountain of...
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Mount Seir (redirect from Mount of the Amalekites)
(Genesis 14:6, 36:20). The children of Esau, the Edomites, battled against the Horites and destroyed them (Deuteronomy 2:4–5, 12, 22). Mount Seir is specifically...
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Thou shalt not covet (redirect from Deuteronomy 5:21)
scholars, Catholic scholars, and Protestant scholars. The Book of Exodus and the Book of Deuteronomy both describe the Ten Commandments as having been spoken...
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agreement that the publication of the Torah took place in the mid-Persian period (the 5th century BCE). The Book of Deuteronomy, composed in stages between...
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Rephaite (category Book of Deuteronomy)
𐤓𐤐𐤀𐤌, romanized: rpʾm) refers either to a people of greater-than-average height and stature in Deuteronomy 2:10-11, or departed spirits in the afterlife...
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Josiah (redirect from Deuteronomic Reform)
from Moses. The book is not identified in the text as the Torah and many scholars believe this was either a copy of the Book of Deuteronomy or a text that...
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Asherah pole (category Book of Deuteronomy)
Hebrew Bible in the books of Exodus, Deuteronomy, Judges, the Books of Kings, the second Book of Chronicles, and the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Micah...
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again features in the opening lines of the Book of Deuteronomy as being located "beyond the Jordan" (Deuteronomy 1:1), in addition: He said: "The LORD...
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Torah (redirect from Torah (book))
the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. In Christianity...
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history of the people of Israel from Joshua to Josiah and expresses a worldview based on the legal principles found in the Book of Deuteronomy, is assumed...
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Mosaic authorship (redirect from Authorship of the Books of Moses)
books of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, were dictated by God to Moses. The tradition probably began with the legalistic code of the Book of Deuteronomy and...
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4Q41 (redirect from All Souls Deuteronomy)
the All Souls Deuteronomy, is a Hebrew Bible manuscript from the first century BC containing two passages from the Book of Deuteronomy. Discovered in...
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Shema (redirect from Deuteronomy 6:4)
(Hebrew: שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ יְהוָה אֶחָֽד׃), found in Deuteronomy 6:4. The first part can be translated as either "The LORD our God" or...
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Shedim (category Book of Deuteronomy)
that only recently came, which your forefathers did not fear. Devarim (Deuteronomy), 32.17 Shedim (Hebrew: שֵׁדִים; singular: שֵׁד Sheyd) are spirits or...
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Peor (category Book of Deuteronomy)
"house of peor" (בית פעור) (Deuteronomy 3:29), generally meaning the Baal of Peor. An alternative translation of Phagor, a city of Judah mentioned in the Greek...
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