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The Deuteronomistic History is a term for Deuteronomy-Joshua-Judges-Samuel-Kings, which begins with Deuteronomy, and applies its ideological outlook to history. The widely but not unanimously held idea behind the title is that these five books are volumes of what has come to be something like a single work, put together by an author or authors who brought it into something like its final form sometime in the seventh or sixth centuries BC, with a special focus on the reign of Josiah. If you want to read more on this, see Martin Noth and responses to his work.
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