Deuteronomy and the Judaean Diaspora

In Deuteronomy and the Judaean Diaspora Ernest Nicholson challenges the widely accepted view that Deuteronomy was the ''book of the law'' described in 2 Kings 22-3 as the basis of king Josiah''s cultic reformation in 621 BCE. He argues that the notice in this narrative that Josiah abolished the rural, local altars throughout Judah and supposedly relocated their priests to Jerusalem is based upon a...