The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 17 - 2 September 2012
The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 17 - 26 August 2012 Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9 Psalm 15 James 1:17-27 St. Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
Background: The Deuteronomist It is probably not correct to speak of this movement in the singular, for there were probably several individuals, if not a school that functioned as the Deuteronomist. In the Documentary Hypothesis, in its earliest form, scholars identified four strands in the Pentateuch (the Books of Moses): J for the Yahwist, E for the Elohist, D for the Deuteronomist, and P for the Priestly source. All of these sources seemed to have operated with older materials and traditions, editing them to support a particular view or theology. The Deuteronomic materials include the Book of Deuteronomy, which is essentially a book of the Law, and parts of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Jeremiah. This school operate