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The aim is to assess Idan Dershowitz’s reconstruction of the Valediction of Moses against textual and redactorial claims.

August 1, 2026Open Access

Valediction_of_Moses_Evaluation

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The aim is to assess Idan Dershowitz’s reconstruction of the Valediction of Moses against textual and redactorial claims.
Analyzed literary and redactorial claims of the Valediction of Moses.
Examined internal covenant architecture and legal sequences of the Pentateuch.
Applied the Convergence Principle to explain the nature of V.
Identified two primary flaws in the proto-Deuteronomy hypothesis: contradictions and omissions.
Demonstrated that V likely represents a secondary endpoint rather than a primary text.
Argued that V is a compact use-text, not the ancestor of canonical Deuteronomy.

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This evaluation demonstrates flaws in the proto-Deuteronomy hypothesis, revealing V's limitations as a biblical source.

Ørjan Myhre (2026) studied this question.

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