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deuteronomistic

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the writer or writers of the book of Deuteronomy.

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Examples

  • The book of Judges is full of stories that violate deuteronomistic norms, but they do illustrate well the deuteronomistic framework of the book.

    Inspired Prophets and Lying Spirits James F. McGrath 2010

  • But I've decided to go with "Deuteronomic History" not only because "Deuteronomistic History" is cumbersome and hard for most undergraduates to pronounce, nor primarily because "deuteronomic" seems to be a more appropriate adjective, but because linguistically "deuteronomistic" seems to invite odd understandings of what it might mean.

    Deuteronomisticification James F. McGrath 2009

  • Or, for a more positive parallel, we could look at "optimism", and then might say that the author of the Former Prophets was "incurably deuteronomistic" in outlook.

    Deuteronomisticification James F. McGrath 2009

  • In his introduction to monotheism, published in 1996, Fritz Stolz identified at least four broad categories of monotheistic thought: priestly, deuteronomistic, wisdom and apocalyptic.

    Early Jewish Monotheisms James F. McGrath 2009

  • Hexateuch, a redaction which was assumed to be Deuteronomistic; but this yielded the result that the deuteronomistic redaction could nowhere be traced in any of the parts belonging to the

    Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

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