1. The literary structure and compositional history of Deut 4 occupies a significant place in recent scholarship of Deuteronomy; see, e.g., A. Rofé, "The Monotheistic Argument in Deuteronomy 4:32-40: Contents, Composition and Text," in Deuteronomy: Issues and Interpretation (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2002), 15-24 (originally published in VT 35 (1985): 434-45); C. H. Begg, "The Literary Criticism of Deut 4,1-40: Contributions to a Continuing Discussion," ETL 56 (1980) 10-55; A. D. H. Mayes, "Deuteronomy 4 and the Literary Criticism of Deuteronomy," JBL 100 (1981) 23-51; R. D. Nelson, The Double Redaction of the Deuteronomistic History (JSOTSS, 18, Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1981), 90-94; and K. Holter, "Literary Critical Studies of Deut 4: Some Criteriological Remarks," BN 81 (1996) 91-103.
2. See the summary in Christensen, Deuteronomy 1:1-21:9, 74-75.
3. The structures of these larger units will be considered in the commentary below.