The term for “Deuteronomist,” one of the four “sources” or traditions in the Pentateuch. The Deuteronomist is the name given the tradition or school that produced the Deuteronomic Code (the central section of the book of Deuteronomy, chapters 12–26). The book of Deuteronomy, to which this source is almost, if not exclusively limited was appended to the JE epic sometime after the seventh century b.c.e. Also see Documentary Hypothesis.