The Rhetorical Performance of Deuteronomy 31 to 34

Deuteronomy 31 to 34 ends with a narration of the preacher's death. The whole book is like a Russian church service, he says. It functions as a death narrative from beginning to end and it has all of those features in it, preparing his family. Like Jacob did at the end of his life, what Jesus does in the upper room with his disciples, he shall leave with you, my peace I gave unto you, not as the world and all the rest."

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