The image of the narrator God in Deuteronomy is very different from the image of God portrayed in the four previous books of the Pentateuch: a god in danger of being consigned to oblivion. In Deuteronomy, God urges his people to remember him and observe his commandments, and promises rewards for those who do so and harsh punishment for people who stray from the righteous path: "And it shall come to pass, if...
Portion of the Week / 'Read, O Israel'
Deuteronomy is transformed not into God's cry to his children that they not abandon him, but rather into the text's "cry" to readers that they not stop reading it.
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Yakov Meir


