school’ from the sacral-religious groupings which produced P.40 It is true that there are areas of religious life in Israel to which Deuteronomy does not address itself in detail. There is no mention, for example, of the ḥaṭṭā’t or ’āšām sacrifices; nor is there any treatment of the role of the priests in the sacrificial system. This feature of the law-book which Dtr. adopted exerted considerable influence, in Noth’s opinion, on the view of cult which is enshrined in the deuteronomistic history.