Jehovist

[ji-hoh-vist]

noun

1. Yahwist.

Jehovist

/ dʒɪˈhəʊvɪst, ˌdʒiːhəʊˈvɪstɪk /

noun

1. another name for the Yahwist

2. a person who maintains that the name YHVH in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament was originally pronounced Jehovah

adjective

1. of or relating to the Yahwist source of the Pentateuch

Other Word Forms

• Jehovism noun
• Jehovistic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of Jehovist¹

First recorded in 1745–55; Jehov(ah) + -ist

Example Sentences

And we have just pointed out the parts played by hebdomades as successive periods in that system of the duration of the flood, adopted by the author of the Jehovist documents inserted in Genesis, as well as by the compiler of the Chaldean Epic of Uruk.

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It is well known, and has long been critically demonstrated, that chapters vi., vii., viii. and ix. of Genesis contain two different narratives of the Deluge, the one taken from the Elohist document, the other from the Jehovist, both being skilfully combined by the final editor.

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And, on the other hand, it is the Jehovist alone who tells of the sending forth of the birds, which occupies a considerable place in the Chaldean tradition.

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But what is, on the contrary, of very decided importance, is the absolute disagreement as to the duration of the Deluge between the Elohist and Jehovist, as well as between the two and the Chaldeo-Babylonian narrator.

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None of the repetitions of the final text of Genesis are observable in the Chaldean poem; which, on the contrary, decisively confirms the distinction made between the two narratives, the Elohist and Jehovist, interwoven by the last compiler of the Pentateuch.

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