1. The origin of the debate may be traced to the publication in 1954 of two important articles by George E. Mendenhall : "Ancient Oriental and Biblical Law," Biblical Archaeology 17/2 (1954): 26-44, and "Covenant Forms in Israelite Tradition," Biblical Archaeology 17/3 (1954): 49-76. This was followed up and built upon by Meredith G. Kline, Treaty of the Great King: The Covenant Structure of Deuteronomy (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1963).
2. K. A. Kitchen, On the Reliability of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003), 287-88.
3. David G. Firth, "Passing On the Faith in Deuteronomy," in Interpreting Deuteronomy: Issues and Approaches, ed. by David G. Firth & Philip S. Johnston (Nottingham: Apollos, 2012), 160, n9.
4. J. G. Millar, Now Choose Life: Theology and ethics in Deuteronomy (NSBT, 6: Leicester: Apollos, 1998), 42-43.