The Provenance of Deuteronomy 32

This study offers a survey of the provenance of the song in Deuteronomy 32, a discussion of its text and language, as well as an analysis of its poetic structure. The author proposes a new theory based on systematic research into intertextual links with other parts of the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical literature of the Ancient Near East. There are sections on the song’s descriptions of the relationship between YHWH and the gods, and the identity of the hostile people to which the song refers. The author concludes that a pre-excilic date is extremely likely for the song in its entirety.