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Deuteronomist
[ doo-tuh-ron-uh-mist, dyoo- ]
noun
- one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
Deuteronomist
/ ˌdjuːtəˈrɒnəmɪst /
noun
- one of the writers of Deuteronomy
Other Words From
- Deuter·ono·mistic adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of Deuteronomist1
Example Sentences
Or when the Deuteronomist says: ‘For the Lord your God, the great God, the mighty and the awful,’ he concludes, ‘He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger.’
"Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord," writes the Deuteronomist; "and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might."
The Deuteronomist is, in reality, not a historian but a moralist, interpreting the history and the forces, divine as well as human, that were moulding it.
Apart from the fact that the Deuteronomist, according to chapter xii., knew nothing of a Mosaic central sanctuary, can he have read what we now read between Exodus xxiv. and xxxii.?
This is undoubtedly and everywhere the fact, and this must dispose us a priori to attach less weight to isolated instances to the contrary: the more so, as Joshua xx. shows that the later retouchings of the canonical text often imitate the tone of the Deuteronomist.
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