Reconsidering Israel and Judah: Recent Studies on the Deuteronomistic History - Hardcoverby Gary N. Knoppers (Editor), J. Gordon McConville (Editor) The Deuteronomic or, more properly, Deuteronomistic History is a modern theoretical construct which holds that the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings constitute a single work, unified by a basic homogeneity in language, style, and content. This construct owes much to the influence of Martin Noth's classic study of the Deuteronomistic History, contained in his larger