Susan Ackerman's View Of Love In Deuteronomistic History

As soon after god delivered his people, the Israelites, out Egypt by crossing the Red Sea, the great people of Israel traveled throughout the desert to eventually camp at Mount Sinai which is a very important sacred space. McBride describes the context of when Moses took account of the Sinai account which God gave Moses the commandments,“In spite of narrative disjunctions, the Sinai account also makes a reasonably clear connection between the divine proposal of a conditional covenant (Exod 19:3-6), whose principal "words" the people are perhaps too quick to accept when Moses first reports them (19:7-8), and the proclamation of the Decalogue (20:1-17). These are, presumably, the same obligatory "words" to which the people subscribe in the rites

God made it through his authority that the people of Israel be made into the Holy nation for God, which is God’s most important possession, so he can protect and care for his people. The ten commandments describe proper guidelines for the Israelite people. In her important study of “love” in the Deuteronomistic History and prophetic texts, Susan Ackerman takes as her opening premise Moran’s understanding of love in Deuteronomy.10 In particular, she asserts without equivocation that the Bible conceives of “interpersonal love” and “covenant love” as distinct types of love, in which the former is “emotional” and the latter is “political.” The ten commandment guidelines are explained as requirements of the covenant that God made with the people of Israel. The ten commandments are the most important principles that govern the people of Israel. Moses states in the Hebrew bible, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might”

The “wrongful use” includes disrespecting, cursing, slandering and blaspheming the name of God. However, most importantly, the wrongful use of Gods name includes falsely attributing human designs to God. The falsely attributing human design to god means that it prohibits anyone from claiming God’s authority for our own motives. The 3rd commandment also reminds most individuals that respecting the names of all humans is not only important to all others, but God also. An example is illustrated when the Good Shepherd “calls his own sheep by name” (John 10:3 ), which also explains to others that if you call someone else “you fool”, then “you will be liable to the hell of fire” (Matt. 5:22 ). Bottom line is that we need to not only respect the name of God, but also respect the name of fellow peers. An important thing to learn from the 3rd commandment is that we need to respect the name of our peers because at the same time those peers are made into God’s