Editing Book of Deuteronomy (section)

==Summary==
[[File:Karolingischer Buchmaler um 840 002.jpg|thumb|250px|Moses receiving the Law (top) and reading the Law to the Israelites (bottom)]]
''(The following "literary" outline of Deuteronomy is from [[John Van Seters]];{{sfn|Van Seters|1998|pp=15–17}} it can be contrasted with Alexander Rofé's "covenantal" analysis in his ''Deuteronomy: Issues and Interpretation''.<ref>Rofé, pp.1–4</ref>)''

*[[Deuteronomy 1|Chapters 1]]–4: The journey through the wilderness from Horeb ([[Sinai Peninsula|Sinai]]) to Kadesh and then to [[Moab]] is recalled.
*Chapters 4–[[Deuteronomy 11|11]]: After a second introduction at 4:44–49 the events at [[Mount Horeb]] are recalled, with the giving of the [[Ten Commandments]]. Heads of families are urged to instruct those under their care in the law, warnings are made against serving gods other than [[Yahweh]], the land promised to Israel is praised, and the people are urged to obedience.
*Chapters 12–26, the [[Deuteronomic Code]]: Laws governing Israel's worship (chapters 12–16a), the appointment and regulation of community and religious leaders (16b–18), social regulation (19–25), and confession of identity and loyalty (26).
*[[Deuteronomy 27|Chapters 27]]–[[Deuteronomy 28|28]]: Blessings and curses for those who keep and break the law.
*Chapters 29–[[Deuteronomy 30|30]]: Concluding discourse on the covenant in the land of Moab, including all the laws in the Deuteronomic Code (chapters 12–26) after those given at Horeb; Israel is again exhorted to obedience.
*[[Deuteronomy 31|Chapters 31]]–34: [[Joshua]] is installed as [[Moses]]'s successor, Moses delivers the law to the [[Levite]]s (a [[priestly caste]]), and ascends [[Mount Nebo]] or Pisgah, where he dies and is buried by God. The narrative of these events is interrupted by two poems, the [[Song of Moses]] and the [[Blessing of Moses]].
The final verses, Deuteronomy 34:10–12, "never again did there arise in Israel a prophet like [[Moses]]," make a claim for the authoritative Deuteronomistic view of theology and its insistence that the worship of Yahweh as the sole deity of Israel was the only permissible religion, having been sealed by the greatest of prophets.<ref>Tigay, pp.137ff.</ref>

===Deuteronomic Code===
{{Main article|Deuteronomic Code}}
Deuteronomy 12–26, the [[Deuteronomic Code]], is the oldest part of the book and the core around which the rest developed.{{sfn|Van Seters|1998|p=16}} It is a series of [[mitzvot]] (''commands'') to the Israelites regarding how they should conduct themselves in the [[Canaan|Promised Land]].