ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the book of Deuteronomy. Centralisation of the Cult are the statutes and ordinances that one must diligently observe in the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given you to occupy all the days that you live on the earth. The place that God will choose is not yet named in Deuteronomy, but it is understood as Jerusalem. One must demolish completely all the places where the nations whom one are about to dispossess served their gods, on the mountain heights, on the hills, and under every leafy tree. The constitution of Plato's State does not involve a king, but rather a person who is wise enough to abdicate in favour of the laws. In the Bible, exile for homicide does not result in exclusion from the land, but instead confinement in one of the six given cities of refuge until the death of the high-priest in charge.