Deuteronomic

[ doo-ter-uh-nom-ik, dyoo- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of, relating to, or resembling Deuteronomy, especially the laws contained in that book.

First recorded in 1855–60; Deuteronom(y) + -ic

With the introduction of each king a comprehensive judgment by the standard of the deuteronomic law is pronounced upon his reign.

It can promise no Deuteronomic catalogue of blessings and cursings to those who obey or disobey its principles.

But the expansion and revision of the Decalogue were not limited to the Deuteronomic school.

Indeed the Deuteronomic law most stringently forbids all social relations with that particular tribe to which Ruth belonged.

We reach thus approximately the age when post-Deuteronomic editors were able to utilize such records as Judg.

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