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The excerpts from the annals are interrupted by more extensive episodes which are interwoven with them, and are also embraced in the Deuteronomistic scheme.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius

In this way the people became "a kingdom of priests and a holy nation," as we read in a Deuteronomistic passage, Exodus xix.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius

One of these Deuteronomistic prophecies is cited above, p.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius

But the authority of this statement is greatly weakened by the fact that it occurs in a passage which has undergone the Deuteronomistic revision, and has been, in addition to this, subjected to interpolation.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius

If, accordingly, we are fully justified in calling the revision Deuteronomistic, this means no more than that it came into existence under the influence of Deuteronomy, which pervaded the whole century of the exile.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius