What did you disagree with in the book of Deuteronomy?

Answer 1

A:

I disagree with the historicity of the book and its traditional attribution to Moses, knowing that it was really written during the seventh century BCE by an anonymous author now known as the Deuteronomist, and subsequently redacted into the form we have today.

I disagree with some of the harsh intolerance attributed to God:

• When God brings you into the land you are to possess, make no covenant with the people there, showing them no mercy (7:1-2).
• Destroy their altars and religious relics.
• You are not to look on them with pity.

I disagree with some of the harsh laws attributed to God. In chapter 13 we learn that anyone who worships any other god, even in secret, is to be put to death. An Israelite must be the first to stone to death his own brother, sister, wife, child or closest friend if they could entice him to other gods. If the inhabitants of any city serve other gods, then all its inhabitants and even its cattle are to be slaughtered. Verses

I disagre with some of the predictions in Deuteronomy. You will be blessed above all peoples. No one will go childless and there will be no sickness among you. This does not reflect what really happened.

Deuteronomy 32:8-9 says that the Most High God El, here called Elyon, divided the nations among his sons and that Yahweh (YHWH), received the people of Israel as his portion. This appears to be evidence of pre-Deuteronomistic polytheism that survived in the Book of Deuteronomy.