RELI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Book Of Deuteronomy, Books Of Samuel, Books Of Kings
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How to search something more specific than christianity . What evidence are they using for an argument. Part 3 of the course: kingdoms of israel and judah. In hebrew bible, we get a series of books: Deuteronomy - joshua - judges - samuel - kings. Deuteronomostic historian who put these books in this order and went back and gave explanations. Josiah found book of law (law code in deuteronomy 12-26 and 28) Trying to prove book of law is word of god. If you look at judah/israel, when they followed the book of the law, things went well. But uses the same language over and over again. Deuteronomy is one long speech by moses. Things important to d. historian: monotheism (cares differently about it than other writers) 2. centralization - only one place you can sacrifice (the temple in jerusalem) Ishtar of nineveh goddesses in the syrian records (possibly the same goddesses)