Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The writer or one of the writers of the book of Deuteronomy.
- noun One of the school of criticism which regards Deuteronomy as a product of an era of Jewish history long subsequent to the days of Moses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The writer of Deuteronomy.
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I sense that the deuteronomist felt that prophets were only a stop-gap measure until Torah could straighten the whole mess out.
Inspired Prophets and Lying Spirits James F. McGrath 2010
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The Torah is good and tells you what to do (a la parashat nitzavim (natati lechem et hatov veet hara, behar batov…)and the book of judges/deuteronomist).
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