The Gospel of Moses

"From the dialogue between Jesus and the foremost learned leaders of Israel comes the most concise summary of the law and the prophets...[that] expresses the essence of the written bible available in His times...Jesus answered the inquiring scribe, "Do this and you shall have eternal life." S. Schultz Book Contents: One of the effective ways to have a primary perception of the author's agenda is to look through the logic of his persuasive sequence in book's ten chapters; The message of the OT, Historic revelation, The Patriarchs, Genesis, Pentateuch and scholarship, God's people and promised land, Kingdom: Judges to kings, The prophets; Jonah to Isaiah: message to the apostate, Jeremiah to Malachi: Divine judgment and Promise, Gospel for this age: promise of redemption, Jesus disclosure of the law and grace, conclusion. Approach and Theme: After years of study, Samuel Schultz came to a conclusion that the book of Deuteronomy is the core of the Torah, and he delineates his approach to an integral understanding of the Old Testament, with the reader, as a record of a Divine relationship that comes to its climax in Jesus Christ. Schultz elaborating on his previous volume, 'The Old Testament speaks', on the development of divine revelation from Moses to the prophets, unfolding the experience of faith as a history of salvation. While the exploring scholar, like Origen of the Hexapla, is entrenched in the continuity of revelation, admits that the OT itself is a reliable account of events, he accepts the inclusion in its literature of "legends, myth, fiction, and folklores?" S. Schultz is not only a believing scholar who inquires into the composition of the Pentateuch, but interprets the essence of popular views of its dating, content, authorship starting with 18th century, to Wellhausen ingenuine JEDP hypothesis of four documents. He explains the historic revelation in the light of recent scholarship starting with Moses and genesis. After establishing that oral tradition prior to Davidic times was the common practice, in the Ancient Orient for transmission of information, concludes that the first five books are essentially the work of Moses. The author concludes that the appeal to man is in the gospel of Moses as it is in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Obedience of the Law is a natural sequence in man's life when he loves God, Who offers His love and mercy to man today as ever. Samuel J. Schultz: Dr. Schultz is emeritus professor of Bible and theology at Wheaton College, IL. He is the author of many studies on the books of the Old Testament, its contemporary significance and theology: The Gospel of Love, The Old Testament Speaks, The Law of Love - The Essence of Israel's Religion, The Prophets Speak: Exploring the Old Testament, Deuteronomy: and numerous articles on biblical subjects.