Wednesday Bible Study: More redundancy and repetitiveness

Deuteronomy 11 is just more of the same: recapitulation of events of Exodus and Numbers and exhortation to obey Yahweh, or else. So I ' ll just repeat myself as well. I think the function of these sermons by Moses was exactly that: they were read aloud to congregations in some form of regular observance. Other than the various prescribed sacrifices, the regular observances such as Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we don ' t really get any information about how the law and lore were transmitted to the illiterate masses. So I suspect there was some sort of regular gathering at which these sermons of Moses were read, and that ' s why they repeat content from earlier books, since hardly anyone could actually read them. Many of the events described here are examples of Yahweh ' s various mass murders; I won ' t bother to point them out. The boundaries promised for the land of Israel were never fully occupied by the Israelites. Most of the land is fairly arid and does require irrigation. Etc. Whatever, let ' s just get it over with.11 “You shall therefore love theLord your God, and keep his charge, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments always.2 And consider this day (since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline[a] of theLord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm,3 his signs and his deeds which he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land;4 and what he ...
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