"HEAR, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might."
These vital words of the Hebrew Shema, the declaration of Moses, are echoing in our ears today even as they penetrated the consciousness of the children of Israel thirty-five hundred years ago on Mount Nebo.
Because of these pronouncements of Truth in the Bible and others like them, we realize that in reading the Scriptures we need a right perspective, gained not primarily from a historical scrutiny of material events, but rather from the study of the lives of spiritual leaders of the Bible and their contribution to the unfolding understanding of Deity. Thus the ten books of the Bible beginning with Exodus and continuing through I Kings, chapter twelve, are primarily the record of the work of Moses and the establishment of the law of God in national experience.
