version embedded in Exodus by means of the Deuteronomic reminiscences justifies the application to that version of the term ‘Deuteronomistic’, in a way that is just as appropriate as the conventional application of that term to Samuel–Kings as part of the ‘Deuteronomistic History’. One difference of this thesis about the growth of the text of Exodus from most that are currently being offered11 is that it presents the most economical theory possible two literary levels only are being identified.