 Professor James Kugel of Bar Ilan University noted that Deuteronomy shares certain favorite themes with Wisdom literature, as, for example, when and prohibit moving boundary marks, a very specific offense also mentioned in and as well as in ancient Egyptian wisdom texts (as well as ).Kugel concluded that the Deuteronomist was closely connected to the world of wisdom literature.Noting that the array of curses in dwarf the catalogue of blessings preceding them, the 20th century Reform Rabbi Gunther Plaut argued that this imbalance should not be surprising, for specific negative commandments far outnumber specific positive ones in the Torah, and forbidden behaviors were generally more common in law codes.