Deuteronomist

American  

[doo-tuh-ron-uh-mist, dyoo-] / ˌdu təˈrɒn ə mɪst, ˌdyu- /

noun

1. one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.

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Deuteronomist British  

/ ˌdjuːtəˈrɒnəmɪst /

noun

1. one of the writers of Deuteronomy

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Other Word Forms

• Deuteronomistic adjective

Etymology

Origin of Deuteronomist

First recorded in 1860–65; Deuteronom(y) ( def. ) + -ist

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.’

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"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."

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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.

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Again it was asserted, and almost with violence, that the Priestly Code could not be later than Deuteronomy, and that the Deuteronomist actually had it before him.

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In all these writers, and still more in the case of the Deuteronomist himself, who in xii. actually makes the unity of the cultus dependent on the previous choice of Jerusalem, it is an exceedingly remarkable thing that, if the Priestly Code had been then already a long time in existence, they should have been ignorant of a book so important and so profound in its practical bearings.

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