Andrea/Overfield, "Establishing a Covenant with a Chosen People"
Moses, "THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY"
"THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY" is written when Moses was leading the Israelites out of Egypt, where they were slaves, and into the new "Promised Land", (between 1279-1213 B.C.E). The Israelites had just spent many years crossing and wandering in a vast dessert (forty years). As they begin to get closer, their leader Moses believes that he will not make it the entire way to the Promised Land. He gives a final speech to his people from God (YHWH) that outlines a covenant between YHWH and the people of Israel. In the covenant between YHWH and the people of Israel, specific rules or requests from YHWH are