Sa mu el 16 The American school, led by F . M . Cross and his followers, observed two stages in the editorial work : a pre - Exilic one ( at the time of King Josiah and connected with the latter’s reform and efforts to retrieve the Unified Kingdom of Israel ) and the other one : a post - Exilic, that aimed to apologetically explain the destruction and Exile . However, the European / Göttingen School, led by R . Smend ( 1971 : 494 - 509 ) , W . Dietrich ( 1972, 1987 ; Dietrich & Naumann 2000 : 276 - 318 ) , and T . Viejola ( 1977 ) , proposed several Exilic and post - Exilic layers of Deuteronomistic reduction of the Former Prophets . 6 In my opinion, the so - called Deuteronomistic editing workshop should be referred to as a circle ( or guild ) or even a school of scribes and copyists, backed by discrete prominent personalities, who started operating at the time of King Hezekiah ( cf . Prov 25 : 1 ) . This editorial movement was initiated by the destruction of Samaria and the massive e...
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