Editing Book of Deuteronomy (section)

===Israel–Judah division===
The prophet [[Isaiah]], active in Jerusalem about a century before Josiah, makes no mention of [[the Exodus]], covenants with God, or disobedience to God's laws. In contrast, Isaiah's contemporary [[Hosea]], active in the northern [[Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)|kingdom of Israel]], makes frequent references to the Exodus, the wilderness wanderings, a covenant, the danger of foreign gods and the need to worship Yahweh alone. This discrepancy has led scholars to conclude that these traditions behind Deuteronomy have a northern origin.{{sfn|Van Seters|1998|p=17}} Whether the Deuteronomic Code was written in Josiah's time (late 7th century BC) or earlier is subject to debate, but many of the individual laws are older than the collection itself.<ref>Knight, p.66</ref> The two poems at chapters 32–33 – the [[Song of Moses]] and the [[Blessing of Moses]] were probably originally independent.{{sfn|Van Seters|1998|p=17}}