This Deuteronomy commentary uniquely combines diachronic interpretation, focused on the text's origins, and synchronic interpretation, centered on the final text's meaning, in the history of the book's exegesis. The commentary demonstrates diachronically that the book stands at the beginning of the literary history of the Torah of the Mosaic books in the 7th century BCE, and synchronically, that it serves as the prophetic cornerstone of the Torah of the Mosaic books. The core of the commentary on Deuteronomy chapters 12-26 focuses on the placement of the commandments of Deuteronomy within the biblical and ancient Near Eastern legal and religious history. The commentary on the post-exilic framework in Deuteronomy 27-34 portrays Moses as the chief prophet who, after the catastrophe of the exile, announces the completion of history with God's circumcision of hearts and his apocalyptic struggle among nations. After the survived catastrophe of the Ex.