Deuteronomic
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Deuteronomic
First recorded in 1855–60; Deuteronom(y) + -ic
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The Deuteronomic Code gives the same reason for the prohibition of the unclean beasts: “For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God.”
From Jewish Theology by Kaufmann Kohler
The strong impress of Hebrew prophecy is to be found in the deeply marked ethical spirit of the Deuteronomic legislation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
To such a dilemma are we to make up our minds, because one trait or another of the Deuteronomic narrative cannot be traced in JE as we now have it, and is preserved in Q?
From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen
Even vigorous persecution or keen exclusiveness of feeling have—pace Lord Acton—saved for mankind, at certain crises of its difficult development, convictions of priceless worth—as in the Deuteronomic Reform and the Johannine Writings.
From Progress and History by Francis Sydney Marvin
The importance of the Deuteronomic law receives emphatic reiteration, 1 Kings ii.
From Introduction to the Old Testament by John Edgar McFadyen
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