On the Consolidation of Administrative Coercion Measures in the Old Testament Legislation (Based on the Analysis of the Book Deuteronomy of the Mosaic Pentateuch)

This article is devoted to the study of the book of Deuteronomy of the Old Testament of the Mosaic Pentateuch, in order to find the normative provisions fixed in it concerning the application of administrative coercion measures. For this purpose, a comparative analysis of modern administrative legislative norms is carried out in parallel with the prescriptions recorded in the ancient text of the book. Deuteronomy, being the final of the five books of the Mosaic Legislation, most clearly shows various normative prescriptions, many of which were previously simply mentioned in the text as an example of a life event or moral instruction. The book gives specific instructions on the need to apply administrative coercion measures, the obligation of their execution and the inevitability of punishment in case of non-compliance. The importance in the use of coercion is justified by the need for further development of the Hebrew state, since they are the ways to implement the laws of the Lord about their unity. Despite their rigidity and sometimes absurdity, these normative prescriptions show a positive result in the system of administrative management of the ancient Jewish state.

administrative coercion, state power, administrative law, sources of law, Old Testament, Bible