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Deuteronomy And The Covenant Treaty Form

International treaties between an Overlord and their subject during the fourteenth and thirteenth centuries are fairly similar to the format of Deuteronomy the best-known examples of these documents are from the Hittites but other examples from Mesopotamia, Syria, and Egypt exhibit a similar form was used. the overlord subject relationship also defined nature of the relationship between God and the Israelites.as indicated by the structure as well as the contents of Deuteronomy.

the Hittite treaties of the fourteenth and thirteenth centuries differ markedly from the treaties of the later of later Assyrian of the eighth and seventh centuries in these treaties the prologue and the blessings are removed more stress is placed on curses. and the order the sections is more varied