The Ten Commandments have been viewed within Judaism as the essence of the Torah. Many have noted that all 613 laws of the Torah correspond to the 613 letters of the Ten Commandments in Exod 20, hence the Decalogue appears to represent the embodiment of all laws and statutes of the Pentateuch. Since the first century BC, the Ten Commandments have been regarded as a summary of biblical law or as headings for all its categories.
Rooker, Mark. The Ten Commandments: Ethics for the Twenty-First Century (New American Commentary Studies in Bible and Theology) (Kindle Locations 327-330). B&H Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Rooker, Mark. The Ten Commandments: Ethics for the Twenty-First Century (New American Commentary Studies in Bible and Theology) (Kindle Locations 326-327). B&H Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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https://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/otesources/02-exodus/text/articles/burton-decalogue-jats.pdf
http://thetorah.com/oldest-known-copy-of-the-decalogue/
http://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2728&context=auss
http://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2761&context=auss
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9gFZAGsJ5c0C&pg=PA263&lpg=PA263&dq=nomos+koine&source=bl&ots=neM77s5BRa&sig=KSu64kn2NtRRTj0evM15MxvbxMA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHreLtuOHPAhULBcAKHQZTDlAQ6AEIQjAG#v=onepage&q=nomos%20koine&f=false
"Maimonides arrived in Egypt in 1166 and eventually settled in Fustat, a section of Cairo. With the publication of the Mishneh Torah, he established himself as a thinker for the ages. Not only does this work systematize all the commandments of the Torah, it tries to show that every part of Jewish law serves a rational purpose and nothing is given for the sake of mere obedience."
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/maimonides/#FunOri
The mitzvot given to Moses at Mount Sinai were all given together with their explanations,4 as implied by [Exodus 24:12]: "And I will give you the tablets of stone, the Torah, and the mitzvah."
As universal commands their explanations are always going to be within a context:-
Deu 5:31 συ δε αυτου στηθι μετ΄ εμου και λαλησω προς σε πασας τας εντολας και τα δικαιωματα και τα κριματα οσα διδαξεις αυτους και ποιειτωσαν ουτως εν τη γη ην εγω διδωμι αυτοις εν κληρω
This being the goal - "the land". An interpretation to fit the time and place.
http://www.gatherthepeople.org/Downloads/KINGDOMS_YOKE.pdf
Thanks for presenting both sides of the Torah as Decalogue argument. I'm obviously in the camp that believes while the Decalogue might embody the Torah, Paul and other Jews evidently used "Torah" (nomos) more expansively.
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