Big Idea - What is the setting or occasion, the situation, that prompted the writing of this book? Deuteronomy does not give us much of anything new. It is mostly repeating and restating what Moses has already written in the first four books of the Pentateuch. Why does he feel the need to tell it and write it all over again? How does understanding the occasion, help explain the reason he "spoke" these words? More importantly, what does this have to do with us? It is all about laws and commands, sacrifices and practices that are so distant from our world and our practice of worship? What can it possibly teach us?
