The Midrash by Jacob Neusner

Author:Jacob Neusner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
Published: 1990-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

E.

“It is only that you continue to walk in the foolishness of your father, for I said, ‘I will make a helpmeet for him’ (Genesis 2:18), while he said, ‘The woman whom you gave to be with me gave me of the tree and I ate’ (Genesis 3:12).”

The words of admonition, now fully exposed, apply to a variety of actions of the people. That is the main point of I:IV–VII. The matter is stated in a simple way at I:IV, V.1 (with an illustration at I:V.2), I:V.3, I:VI, I:VII. After the five illustrations of the proposition that the admonition covered the entire past, we proceed to a secondary expansion, I:VII.2, 3, which itself is amplified at I:VII.4. The main structure is clear, and the proposition is continuous with the one with which we began: Moses admonished Israel, all Israel, which could take the criticism, and covered the entire list of areas where they had sinned, which then accounts for the specification of the various locations specified by Deuteronomy 1:1. When we realize what is to come, we understand the full power of the proposition, which is syllogistic though in exegetical form. It is to indicate the character and encompassing program of the Book of Deuteronomy—nothing less.

I:VIII

1. A.

“And Hazeroth” (Deuteronomy 1:1):

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