Historiography of the Bible

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This paper summarizes and describes the focus of the three Old Testament books, Deuteronomy, Samuel and Kings, and explains how these books are about why a monarchy was considered unacceptable to the people of Israel and how this negative association had a lot to do with the concept of obedience and disobedience to God.

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"The obedience and disobedience of the nation is expressed by means of the nation as a single entity in the book of Deuteronomy. This book is also the link between the history related in Genesis and Exodus, and the events in the Promised Land related in later books. This is where the nation of Israel receives the laws ordained for the nation as a whole. The emphasis is also on communal life and worship, and there is no barrier between God and his people, except the sin committed by the nation as a whole."

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