Observance of God's commandments is, as Levenson puts it, the teleological end of history.

遵守上帝的戒条，是这段历史的目的。

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Israel's acceptance of a relationship with God doesn't stem from mystical introspection, or philosophical speculation, Levenson says.

犹太人接受与上帝的关系并不来自于,神秘的内省，或者是出于投机心理，Levenson说。

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So Levenson, who draws actually on long-standing work by other scholars, and earlier in the twentieth century even , Levenson finds several of the main elements of the Hittite suzerainty treaties in this speech.

所以Levenson凭借其他学者，甚至是二十世纪初的学者的作品，发现了在这段演说中,有几个存在在Hittite领主条约的主要元素。

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According to Levenson, the use of a suzerainty treaty as a model for Israel's relationship to Yahweh, expresses several key ideas. It captures several key ideas.

根据Levenson的观点，领主契约用作于一个,犹太人和耶和华之间关系的范例，表达几个重要的观点。

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Mount Zion is in Jerusalem, it's the Temple Mount today where the mosque now is. Today, we'll consider Levenson's analysis of the Sinai tradition as an entree into the Israelite concept of the Torah, and the covenant bond, its meaning and its implications.

耶路撒冷的郇山，这座神庙山,是今天El-Aqsa清真寺的所在地，今天我们,将对Levenson对西奈传统的分析进行思考，以犹太人对,摩西五经的观点作为主线，以及条约的联系，意义和隐含意义。

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It's one that we'll take up in greater detail, though, when we get to the book of Deuteronomy, where it is stressed to a greater degree than it is in Exodus, but for now, we can accept Levenson's claim that Sinai represents an intersection of law and love, because of the use of the suzerainty model.

这点占据了很细节的描述，当我们读到《申命记》,其中强调的程度比《出埃及记》要多得多，但是现在，我们只能接受Levenson的主张，那就是,西奈代表了律法与热爱的交叉点，因为用到了领主模式。

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