The most important example of this has already
been investigated, p. 43, 44.
If, accordingly, we are fully justified in calling the revision
Deuteronomistic, this means no more than that it came into
existence under the influence of Deuteronomy, which pervaded the
whole century of the exile. The difference between
Deuteronomistic and Deuteronomic is one not of time only but of
matter as well: /1/ Deuteronomy itself has not yet come to regard
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1. Post-deuteronomic, but still from the time of the kings, are
1Samuel ii. 27 seq.; 2Samuel vii, 1 seq.; 2Kings xviii. 13, 17
seq., xix. 1 seq.; chaps. xi. xii. xxi. xxiii.
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the cultus in this way as the chief end of Israel, and is much
closer to the realism of the actual life of the people. A
difference in detail which allows of easy demonstration is
connected with the mode of dating. The last reviser distinguishes
the months not by their old Hebrew names, Zif, Bul, Ethanim, but
by numbers, commencing with spring as the beginning of the year.
In this he differs not only from his older sources (1Kings vi.
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