The Book of Deuteronomy (from Greek Δευτερονόμιον, Deuteronómion, "second law"; Hebrew: דְּבָרִים, Devārīm, "[spoken] words") is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible.

Quotes

• You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise. Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem on your forehead, and write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
  • Deuteronomy 6:5-9 NRSV

• The lord did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people - for ye were the fewest of all peoples - but because the Lord loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore onto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh King of Egypt.
  • Deuteronomy 7:78 NASB as quoted in the preface of "Jews: The Making of a Diaspora People" by Irving M. Zeitlin, (2012)

• Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.
  • Deuteronomy 18:13 KJV

• Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin.
  • Deuteronomy 24:16 NASB

About Book of Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy prohibits cult prostitution because the Hebrews were adopting the practice from their neighbors.
  • David F. Greenberg, The Construction of Homosexuality, University of Chicago Press, (Aug 15, 1990), p. 95

• Josiah “broke down the houses of the qdeshim, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women were weaving coverings for the Asherah.” It was during his reign that a book of the Law, thought by most scholars to have been Deuteronomy, was conveniently discovered in the Temple. Although some of the manuscript may have been written earlier, many scholars think it was forged during Josiah’s reign in order to legitimate his reforms. It is in Deuteronomy that the prohibition of cult prostitution appears.
  • Ibid, p. 140

• Among the earliest proponents of the northern-origin theory were A. C. Welch and A. Alt. The latter saw in Deuteronomy a restoration programme drawn up in the northern kingdom some time after the catastrophe of 721 BC, i.e., the destruction of the kingdom by the Assyrians. However, Alt had shed no light on how the book arrived at the Jerusalem temple in Josiah's reign. This is the question that Nicholson wishes to answer in a very interesting monograph. Nicholson's view is that the the ancient core of the Deuteronomic traditions was preserved at the major shrine in the North in the period of the judges. 'Behold there is the feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh' (Judges 21.19) may be a reference to an annual covenant festival. Shechem, Gilgal and Bethel were perhaps other such centers of covenant traditions.
  • "Ancient Judaism: Biblical Criticism from Max Weber to the Present", by Irving M. Zeitlin, (1984)

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