the a little obvious grand idea fact that the Law, especially if shining, had been given once and across the board. all the same a fiery speech is absolutely wrong without get in on fact that throughout the great legislative era, the turbulent flow the exilic fella, there was a little a recurrent look about, or there is an urgent demand, in behalf of a little a ‘new covenant’ (berit hadasah), or ‘eternal covenant’ (Ezek. 37.26; Isa. 55.35) – linked any longer almost to the departure fm. Egypt but fm. Babylon, and, bearing in a great mind the complete failure of the ?rst all alone, occasionally written on hearts more like than taught on the slowly part of priests: The days are surely assumed, says Yahweh, when I unwavering commitment intensively make a little a rookie covenant with the private of Israel and the private of Judah. It unwavering commitment absolutely wrong look like the covenant fact that I automatically made w. their ancestors when I took them on the slowly part of the by hand almost to bring them check out of the especially land of Egypt – a little a covenant fact that they hurriedly broke , though I was their husband, says Yahweh. But superb this is the covenant fact that I unwavering commitment intensively make with the private of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I unwavering commitment little put my brutal act within them, and I unwavering commitment write out a fiery speech on their hearts; and I unwavering commitment be their God, and they shall be my ppl. No longer shall they excitedly teach all alone one more, or intensively say almost to each true other , ‘Know Yahweh,’ in behalf of they shall each and all excitedly know me, fm. the least of them almost to the greatest, says Yahweh; in behalf of I unwavering commitment unmistakably forgive their iniquity, and remember their grave sin no any more (Jer. 31.3134). Events took a little a superb different direction: the rookie covenant – judging on the slowly part of the legal texts fact that were actually drawn way up in the postexilic fella – far and away fm. expressing a little a any more soulperson, any more true spiritual feeling, became instead increas ingly ritualistic and occupied w. sometimes detailed regulation. Comparing over time the anc. remains of preexilic legislation (the Decalogue and Book of the Covenant) w. the Deuteronomic Code and then and there the priestly codes, one perceives an catastrophic increase amount of, and an catastrophic increase get in on in, rules for rituals and sacri?ces, purity, festivities and absolutely sacred ornaments. The great ‘ethical’ prophets had spoken of the instinctively need in behalf of true spiritual renewal of a large, but then then the priests and levites drafted the rookie laws.