Deuteronomy

(du-tür-on'o-me.) [From Gr. deuteros, the second, and nomos, law.] (Script.) One of the sacred books of the Old Testament, being the fifth book of the Pent a teuch. It was so called by the Septuagint translators to the 5th book of the Pent a teuch, because it contains a repetition of the entire Mosaic legislation, with the exception of what pertains to the priesthood. It is commonly presumed to have been written by Moses himself, with the exception of the last four chapters, which narrate the closing events in the life of the great lawgiver ina biographical and not in an autobiographical spirit. Many critics, however, especially in Germany, affirm that the entire book itself in its present form is post-Mosaic. [s. 281]