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Lessons in Governing: The Farewell Addresses of Moses
A New Translation of Deuteronomy from the Septuagint
Translation by Andy Gaus (Translator, The Unvarnished New Testament)
Commentary by Peter Lawrence Alexander
Releases November 15, 2008
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“What passages of Scripture shall guide our national policy?” is the question asked by U.S. Senator Barack Obama at the Sojourner’s/Call to Renewal Conference in 2006 where he spoke on The Role of Religion in Politics Today.

To answer that question, another must asked. Was there any leader at any time who guided national policy by Scripture and do we have a record of it?

Fortunately, there is one, although he’s rarely thought of in contemporary circles as a political leader. In fact, you might even get a savvy political crowd giggling by the mere mentioning of his name.

That’s because the man most capable to answer Senator Obama’s question is Moses. And we have a record of his experience in his first person account in Deuteronomy (the last book of the Torah) which is actually a series of farewell addresses. For Lessons In Governing: The Farewell Addresses of Moses, Deuteronomy has been newly translated into contemporary English from the Septuagint, the 285BC Greek translation of the oldest known Hebrew manuscripts in existence, by Andy Gaus, the noted translator of The Unvarnished New Testament.

Moses is the one man who can genuinely respond to the question because he guided national policy by Torah while under The Theocracy where God, not an earthly monarch, was king.

That Moses lead in a theocracy where YHWH was king of a nation with a geographic territory affords us a practical working view of God’s concept of government in action for a 425-year period from 1446BC (the approximate date of the Exodus) to approximately 1021BC (when Saul ben Kish became the first human monarch of Israel).

In summary, under The Theocracy with Torah as the domestic policy of Israel, God’s plan called for limited government, no taxes, encouraged entrepreneurship, established fair laws, a volunteer judiciary with advisors, a volunteer militia, a national dietary plan, labor laws and a national vacation schedule, monetary policy, sanctuary cities, a common language, immigration policy, helping the poor, and much more.

You’ll be happily surprised to discover that God’s political agenda is much more broad than what you may have heard.

Lessons In Governing: The Farewell Addresses of Moses is in three parts.

Part 1 is Andy Gaus’ lively contemporary translation which turns Deuteronomy into a lively page turner.
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Part 2 is commentary by Peter Lawrence Alexander which steps you through the domestic policy found in Torah

Part 3 contains a collection of Farewell Addresses by former American presidents.

To read practical answers to Barack Obama’s question, Lessons In Governing: The Farewell Addresses of Moses is a must read for voters, political leaders, and Christians in any country.