Jehovist
Americannoun
noun
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another name for the Yahwist
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a person who maintains that the name YHVH in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament was originally pronounced Jehovah
adjective
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At least this principle would have to be applied to the Jehovist and Deuteronomy too, and not to the Priestly Code only.
From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius
The Jehovist narrative does shine by the absence of all efforts after rationalistic explanation, by its contempt for every kind of cosmological speculation.
From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius
Jehovist, the presumed author of the Jehoistic portions of the Pentateuch.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
In making the following attempt in this direction, I start from the comparison of the three constituents of the Pentateuch,—the Priestly Code, Deuteronomy, and the work of the Jehovist.
From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius
The Priestly Code runs, as to its historical thread, quite parallel to the Jehovist history.
From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius
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