Treaty form of the 14th/13th Centuries B.C.
Statements of the Covenant
Ex 20-31 Dt 1-32 Josh 24
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1 Preamble/Title - identifying author
20.1 1.1-5 24:2
2 Historical Prologue or retrospect, giving previous
benefactions by suzerain
20.2 1.6-3.29 24.2-13
3 Stipulations: basic and detailed; obligations on the vassal
[basic] 20:3-17; 22-26 4,5-11 24.14-15
[detail] 21-23, 25-31 12-26 16-25
4a Deposition of a copy of the covenant in the vassal's sanctuary
25.16; 34:1,28,29 31.9,24-26 24.26
(cf. Dt 10:1-5 in retro)
4b Public reading - periodic, to the people
Dt 31:10-13
5 Witnesses - a long list of gods invoked to witness the covt.
(in Biblical material, no other gods --so we have stones,
a song, the law-book, people)
24.4 31.16-30;32:1-47 24.22
Dt 31.36
6 Curses and Blessings
Lev 26.3-13; 14-20 28.1-14; 15-68 24.19-20
(Ref: K.A. Kitchen, Ancient Orient and Old Testament, IVP, 1966)
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