books.google.com.au - The thesis that the books of Deuteronomy to 2 Kings have undergone a redaction that made them into a 'Deuteronomistic History' has become since Martin Noth (1943) a widely accepted idea in Old Testament scholarship. But there is no consensus when this history was edited: under Josiah (622 BCE), during...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Israel_Constructs_Its_History.html?id=rex7ASbY_bkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareIsrael Constructs Its History