It’s Deuteronomolicious!
This is totally insider, private joke stuff. Will only work if you’ve had the WTS OTHT2 course (or its equivalent elsewhere). Just a little Last Days Madness (aka finals season) humor for those WTS students struggling to get it all over.
While supposedly studying together for our Old Testament History & Theology II (aka “Tremper Longman’s Bibliography”) exam, some of us were struggling to get “deuteronomic” and “deuteronomical” off our tongues, let alone into our brains. This led to us proposing some other possible tracings of the influence of Deuteronomy on Joshua thru Kings:
- Deuteronomania: an obsession with finding deuteronomical historical references.
- Deuteronomonopoeia: all the references to “Babel” in the Old Testament
- Deuteronomaly: a deuteronomomic reference that just shouldn’t be there
- Deuteronomalicious: the attitude of opponents of the theory of deuteronomical history
- Deuteronomono! What Saul yelled as he lept onto his own sword.
- Deuterognome: little idol statues found on Israelite front lawns.
- Deuterognostic: a pre-pre-pre-Christian cult; responsible for every lie in The Da Vinci Code.
- Deuteronomocalifragilisticexpialidocious: If you say it loud enough, you might seem precocious!
- Deuteronomalignant: that sick feeling you have the day after your OTHT2 exam when you realize you left the most obvious points about DH off your exam essay.
- Deuteronomaniac: a DH geek.
- Deuteronomesticated: the condition of a former Deuteronomaniac who has just lost interest, to the extent that he no longer sends daily emails to his friends with the subject line: “Those Crazy Redactors, Look What They’re Up to Now!”
- Deuteronomolicious! That tasty sensation of being done forever with Old Testament History and theology!
Contributions from Fellow Travellers:
- Deuteronomasia: making up plays on words based on the word “Deuteronomy†(from Rainbownia)
- DeuteronoMiss: the female redactor of the DH, who is responsible for the intriguing stories, in Judges, of women who put men to shame (Jael/Sisera; Deborah/Barak; Abimelech/that lady with the millstone; Delilah/Samson, etc). (From Justin)
- Deuteronomystical: the ecstatic, trancelike state that a person reaches after reading 2,000 pages of OT scholarship in two weeks as preparation for the OTHT 2 final. (from Justin)
- Deuteronomastication: what the neighbor’s dog did with my OTHT 2 notes the day after the final.
- Deuteronomerchant: someone who makes their living writing and selling books about the DtH (see Longman, Tremper). (from Baptist Creep)
- Deuteronomercenary: the soldier who takes holy war just a little too far. (from Baptist Creep)
- Deuteronomishizzolist:South side. Holla. (from Baptist Creep)
- I always try to do unto others as I would have them Deuternomy (from John Eddy)
- Editorial discursis from David: This is Deuteronomiculous.
- Deuteronymy–(1) when both authors of a work assume fictitious names (e.g., the secret “Gospel of Jannes and Jambres†that David Brown has yet to get his hands on, and some presbytery reports). (2) The figure of speech only found in semitic languages where the dual form of one noun stands for another noun associated with it (go figure). (from The Persian Sage)
- Deuteroewy: accidently steepin in someone elses buisness. Bad experience don’t ask… (from Anthony)
- Deuteronomiserable: Trying to remember the difference between Deuteronomic and Deuteronomistic. (from a “friend”)
- Deuteronomystery: Why couldn’t they have come up with a really different word for one or the other? (from a “friend”)
- Deuteronautic: the lost laws of ship-building believed to be original to the book of Deutoronomy. (from Baptist Creep)
- Deuteronauticalist: 2 Kings laws of ship-building which forbade off-shore sacrifices, laying the basis for the later theonomic application to sanctioning riverboat gamblers by execution. (from Baptist Creep)
- Deuteronaughty: adjective describing one who has broken Deuteronomic law. e.g., “Israel was sent into exile because they had been very Deuteronaughty.” (from David)
- DeuteronoMac: A brand of theology that used to be available in small, medium and large sizes; now you can only get it in large, Supersize, and Megasupersize (cf. OTHT II reading list) (from Rainbownia)
- DeuteronoMac (alternate version): A version of the Deuteronomic Law not as widespread as DeuteronoWindows. It did seem to function better, however, across a wide variety of contextualizations. It was even able to sychronize with the IotaPod during the hellenized 2nd Temple period.
- Don’teuronomy (from John Eddy. Editorial note from the Foolish Sage: This should perhaps be what should be said to this entire thread.
- Deuteronomasochist - one who subjects himself to reading hundreds of pages of painful OT theology (from Mel Moore)
- Deuteronosadist - one who requires said theology for reading (from Mel Moore)
- Deuteronomonastic -someone who spends so much time studying DH that he might as well live in a cave somewhere (from Mel Moore)
- Deuterennsomythstic: Inspiration and Incarnation, 2nd ed. (from Michael)
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May 16th, 2006 at 8:12 am
You forgot to mention John Deuteronominic Crossan, an Israelite prophet who foretold that the Messiah would be a wandering sage, spouting off pithy sayings like unto Buddhist coans–a sort of “proto-beatnic” in the words of Phil Jenkins. Or “eschatological-beatnic,” I suppose. Or, for all you Klineans out there, a “proto-eschatological-beatnic-hippie-suzereign-….
May 16th, 2006 at 9:38 am
Deuteronomasia: making up plays on words based on the word “Deuteronomy”
May 16th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
TD: Elements of the DH which are “truly deuteronomistic.”
May 16th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
What about….
DeuteronoMiss: the female redactor of the DH, who is responsible for the intriguing stories, in Judges, of women who put men to shame (Jael/Sisera; Deborah/Barak; Abimelech/that lady with the millstone; Delilah/Samson, etc)
OR…
Deuteronomystical: the ecstatic, trancelike state that a person reaches after reading 2,000 pages of OT scholarship in two weeks as preparation for the OTHT 2 final.
May 16th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Deutorlogy
Mark Traphagen at Sacred Journey shares some seminarian non-words all based on the root “Deutero”….
May 16th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
“Rainbownia”: I suspect that even now the TD’s are carefully watching this thread for any signs of the dangerous NPD (New Perspective on the Deuteronomist). These destroyers of the true Yahwist faith (as codified forever at the Westjerusalem Assembly called by Ezra) rely way too heavily on the work of one Colonel Sanders, who purported to show that the earlier redactors were not wife-beaters as had commonly been believed, but in fact were rug-beaters…basically they ran the early equivalent of laundries. They would want us to reassess the intent of the Deutoronomical Historian as merely being a concern about getting his rugs back still damp again.
May 16th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
I don’t understand most of what you just said. However, I did find another definition for TD.
TD: an interpreter who reads the entire Pentateuch through the controlling hermeneutical lens of the D-source, even when J, E and P material is obviously present.
May 16th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
I want to play, too:
Deuteronomerchant: someone who makes their living writing and selling books about the DtH (see Longman, Tremper).
Deuteronomercenary: the soldier who takes holy war just a little too far.
Deuteronomishizzolist:South side. Holla.
May 16th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
I always try to do unto others as I would have them Deuternomy
May 16th, 2006 at 7:17 pm
This is Deuteronomiculous.
May 16th, 2006 at 7:25 pm
Wow, this site is finally living up to its sagely foolishness. Can’t resist:
Deuteronymy–(1) when both authors of a work assume fictitious names (e.g., the secret “Gospel of Jannes and Jambres” that David Brown has yet to get his hands on, and some presbytery reports). (2) The figure of speech only found in semitic languages where the dual form of one noun stands for another noun associated with it (go figure).
May 16th, 2006 at 8:52 pm
Deuteroewy: accidently steepin in someone elses buisness. Bad experience don’t ask…
May 16th, 2006 at 11:06 pm
Deuteronomiserable: Trying to remember the difference between Deuteronomic and Deuteronomistic.
Deuteronomystery: Why couldn’t they have come up with a really different word for one or the other?
May 17th, 2006 at 12:50 am
Deuteronautic: the lost laws of ship-building believed to be original to the book of Deutoronomy.
Deuteronauticalist: 2 Kings laws of ship-building which forbade off-shore sacrifices, laying the basis for the later theonomic application to sanctioning riverboat gamblers by execution.
May 17th, 2006 at 5:38 am
Deuteronaughty: adjective describing one who has broken Deuteronomic law. e.g., “Israel was sent into exile because they had been very Deuteronaughty.”
May 17th, 2006 at 8:35 am
DeuteronoMac: A brand of theology that used to be available in small, medium and large sizes; now you can only get it in large, Supersize, and Megasupersize (cf. OTHT II reading list).
May 17th, 2006 at 11:30 am
don’teuronomy
May 17th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
deuteronomasicist - one who subjects himself to reading hundreds of pages of painful OT theology
deuteronosadist - one who requires said theology for reading
detouronomist - he goes on tangents
May 17th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
also - deuteronomonastic -someone who spends so much time studying DH that he might as well live in a cave somewhere
May 17th, 2006 at 10:34 pm
man, and i missed all this to watch ALIAS?? what was i thinking!?!
May 17th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
Hey, Denise, I know the feeling. I missed LOST tonight to hang out at the WTS study break. But then, there was shrimp. Ummm….shrimp.
April 25th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
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