Warfare does not stand out as a major concern in the main body of decrees and laws in Deuteronomy 12:1–26:16, the so-called Deuteronomic core. These chapters only mention war as a means to attain broader aims. In keeping with the larger concerns of the present volume, this contribution is a case study contributing to the over-arching question about whether or not an earlier independent Deuteronomic core existed that later was framed to obtain the present book.
Beukenhorst, M. (2021). The War Laws in Deuteronomy. In Diana Edelman, Kåre Berge, Philippe Guillaume and Benedetta Rossi (eds.) (ed.), Deuteronomy in the Making: studies in the production of Debarim (pp. 271-288). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110713312-010