Deuteronomist

[doo-tuh-ron-uh-mist, dyoo-]

noun

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

Deuteronomist

/ ˌdjuːtəˈrɒnəmɪst /

noun

1. one of the writers of Deuteronomy

Other Word Forms

• Deuteronomistic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of Deuteronomist¹

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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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.?

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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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