• Its style and allusions are also strikingly consistent with the circumstances and position of Moses and of the people at that time.

    This body of positive evidence cannot be set aside by the conjectures and reasonings of modern critics, who contended that the book was somewhat like a forgery, introduced among the Jews some seven or eight centuries after the Exodus.

    Copyright StatementThese dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain.

    Bibliography InformationEaston, Matthew George. Entry for 'Deuteronomy'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/d/deuteronomy.html. 1897.