Deuteronomistn.
The writer of the book of Deuteronomy, or of the parts of that book which do not consist of earlier documents.
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1862 S. Davidson Introd. to O.T. I. 370 The Deuteronomist's style is diffuse, and his language unlike that of the other writings traditionally ascribed to the same individual.
1867 R. Martineau tr. H. Ewald Hist. Israel I. Introd. ii. 117 The work of an author whom we may briefly call ‘the Deuteronomist’.
1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 1792 The final compiler is not to be identified with the Deuteronomist.
1888 T. K. Cheyne Jeremiah 70 The Deuteronomist (if we may so for convenience term the author, or joint-authors, of the original Deuteronomy).
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Deuteronoˈmistic adj. of the nature or style of the writer of Deuteronomy.
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Deuteronomistic1862
1862 S. Davidson Introd. to O.T. I. 363 Let us now compare the Deuteronomistic with the Jehovistic legislation.
1881 W. R. Smith Old Test. in Jewish Church (1892) 425 Judges, Samuel, and Kings, in the Deuteronomistic redaction.
1888 T. K. Cheyne Jeremiah 71 A Deuteronomistic writer composed Deut. i–iv. 40 as a link between his own and the earlier work.
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