Who are my parents? “You will not bear false witness,” Deuteronomy,and Mark

Abstract

The treatment of the ninth commandment against bearing false witness in the DC, for example, extends the principle beyond the original court setting of the commandment to apply it to a variety of circumstances involving false and misleading promises–that is, to fraud. Tracing the thread of this interpretation through other sections of the Torah and wisdom literature, both biblical and Deutero-canonical, leads to Mark 10:9, an enigmatic text in which Jesus (Mark?) employs the same techniques of (re)arrangement and extrapolation to make a significant claim concerning the family character of the kingdom of God.”