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Sep 11, 2026
Doug MetzgerHOST
Christians often talk about the wrathful and jealous God of the Old Testament, but even among the ireful verses of the Torah, we hear the priestly source in Leviticus saying, quote, "Love your neighbor as yourself." Close quote.
Doug MetzgerHOST
And the Deuteronomist in Deuteronomy saying, quote, "Since there will never cease to be some need on the earth, I therefore command you, open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land." Close quote.
Doug MetzgerHOST
These are great verses to have printed in a billion books, and I'm glad they're there.
Doug MetzgerHOST
Not so nice, however, is a passage a few pages earlier in Deuteronomy, and one that is, in my opinion, the single most horrifying string of verses in all of the Abrahamic scriptures, one I don't think I've ever read in our podcast.
Jeff ChadwickGUEST
I would say II Kings eighteen through twenty was written around six twenty BC.
Jeff ChadwickGUEST
I look at it as a biblical scholar as part of the Deuteronomic history that we ascribe in the best conservative terms to the creation of the text that comes out of the reign of Josiah.
Jeff ChadwickGUEST
They make sense in terms of being around in six hundred BC.
Jeff ChadwickGUEST
But they're not authored by Isaiah.
Cy KellettHOST
Go ahead
MarkAUDIENCE
... a caller's, uh, I know that, is that the canon, the, the, the canon was two-thirds filled by the first century, and it was accepted, and the main thing was over the w- books that were going in, the writings, and then of course all the other, the Deuteronomistic books, uh, the Apoc- Apocrypha and all that, was integ- Mainly they were probably rejected because a lot of the Jewish Christians accepted them, and that's probably one of the reasons why too.
MarkAUDIENCE
Plus they were also k- kind of cracking down on what they thought was an excess of, uh, angelology in some of those books.
Cy KellettHOST
Steven, I would like to get your-
Dave ButlerHOST
So religion seems to take a turn away from – communal sacrifice towards concern with personal salvation.
Dave ButlerHOST
This is when, like, we get new religious movements like Zoroaster, but also like the Deuteronomists are a manifestation of it, okay? Where they want a more sort of rational religion as they regard it, right? They want a sort of a simplified God and doctrines they agree with, right? Like the first Marxists.
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Well...
Dave ButlerHOST
Maybe.
Dan McClellanHOST
It's death penalty for both of them.
Dan McClellanHOST
What happens when a man finds a virgin who is betrothed? And then it gives two examples where he sexually assaults her and another where it seems to be consensual based on the stupid logic of the Deuteronomistic author there.
Dan McClellanHOST
And it's the death of the man in both cases and the death of the girl if they think it's consensual.
Dan McClellanHOST
And then what to do if a man sexually assaults a virgin who is not betrothed.
Eric FistlerHOST
It reminds me of the gospel this week in the gospel last week, which of course are very intrinsically connected to each other.
Eric FistlerHOST
Um, Okay, so even if we take the priestly account, what if we take the priestly account in the Deuteronomistic sense, right? So we're in the middle of the Torah.
Eric FistlerHOST
This is a big piece of the Torah.
Eric FistlerHOST
We're going to end, this is going to happen in a handful of weeks, we're going to get to Deuteronomy, the death of Moses, and it's going to talk about, I think it's at the end of October, October 25th, we'll hit this.
Amy BernsteinHOST
Right? In order to cross over into the promised land.
Amy BernsteinHOST
Right? But look what the Deuteronomist does with this beautiful move.
Amy BernsteinHOST
You are all standing here today ready to cross over into covenant with Adonai, your God.
Amy BernsteinHOST
Nice, right? Nice.
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Amy BernsteinHOST
So remember, this is the Midrash.
Amy BernsteinHOST
This is the Midrash on a verse that means nothing about what the Midrash is talking about.
Amy BernsteinHOST
So what's put in Moshe's mouth by the Deuteronomist has nothing to do with what the Midrash is saying.
Amy BernsteinHOST
The Midrash is writing a beautiful Midrash.
David AndersHOST
And it's not how Jesus did moral theology.
David AndersHOST
Jesus did not begin his moral catechesis by reasoning in a straightforward way from the Deuteronomic penal code.
David AndersHOST
In fact, he disputes that penal code at several points.
David AndersHOST
He refuses to execute the death penalty against women caught in adultery.
Robert SpitzerHOST
Okay, so anyway, obviously there's the big historical books, and the historical books go, you know, all the way up to, you know, Nehemiah and Ezra, etc.
Robert SpitzerHOST
And so we've got basically the restoration of the kingdom after the exile, and then the Deuteronomist is responsible for everything from Deuteronomy.
Robert SpitzerHOST
Not everything, but most everything from Deuteronomy all the way up to, you know, the Nehemiah and Ezra.
Robert SpitzerHOST
Okay.
AndyHOST
Exactly.
AndyHOST
In Deuteronomic law, the community was called to keep their own kin in sight.
AndyHOST
The state itself had a duty toward those abandoned by family.
SerenaGUEST
which makes the psalmist's statement prophetic.
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