Elusive Deuteronomists, Jeremiah, and Proto-Deuteronomy

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Holladay, William L | Copyright information

ONE OF THE most persistent and intractable historical-critical questions in OT study is that of the literary relation between Jeremiah and Deuteronomy. The assumption of a Deuteronomistic edition of Jeremiah is widespread: thus, typically, Rainer Albertz, in his History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period (1994), has a section entitled "The missionary work of enlightenment among the people by the Jeremiah Deuteronomists." '

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