The author must be ignorant of scripture:
The tablets that contained the 10 commandments were the only laws actually carried inside the ark of the covenant.
The ten commandments were the only laws written by the finger of God himself.
The ten commandments were the only laws written in stone.
The ten commandments were the only words uttered by God to all of Israel...everything else was dictated through Moses.
Deu 10:4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spoke unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
They certainly do stand out.
Judaism is a different religion, not just an argument over interpretation.
There is no such thing as the Ten Commandments. Look at the Hebrew versus the English translation of the words. In Hebrew, these ten items are called the "Aseret HaDvarim." The word "devarim" comes from the Hebrew root "DabeR," meaning "speak." The best way to Aseret HaDvarim is "The Ten Utterances" or "Statements."
If it meant the "Ten Commandments," they would have been called "Aseres HaMitzvos." If these actually were commandments, we would have the right to question why were these ten singled out of the total 613. When stated at Sinai and later inscribed on the tablets, they were never intended to be commandments as such. Therefore, why these ten are "better" or more important than the 603 others is not a question.
This of course leads us to another question: Why the ten singled-out statements? What makes them so special? Jewish tradition holds that inside of or included in these ten statements is the entire Torah. In other words, the Ten Statements are actually ten categories into which each of the 613 Torah commandments falls.