Treaty of the Great King

...A primary motivation for this area of scholarship was to provide evidence that Mosaic documents were cohesive literary units with historic veracity. Deuteronomy was singled out by Kline as having a strong resemblance to covenant structures of the Ancient Near East contra the various liberal hypotheses built upon JEDP which suggest significant redaction of the Pentateuch narrative as late as 7th century BC.In his book Treaty of the Great King Kline gives a detailed analysis and strong evidence for supporting the correlation of Deuteronomy as being a legal document between Israel and YHWH that was patterned after Ancient Near-Eastern treaties with Moses as its primary compiler. Kline also provides numerous and valuable bibliographic footnotes -- Amazon.com.