years is to see it as an expression of the theological standpoint of Deuteronomy or of the Deuteronomistic History. In this view we see a total reversal of the earlier critical consensus of opinion. For both the documentary critics and the tradition-historians it had been common ground that the book of Deuteronomy (virtually the same as D) stood apart from the rest of the Pentateuch as an alien block of material. Noth’s hypothesis of a Deuteronomistic History (which included Deuteronomy) as a work
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