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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Origin of Jehovist
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How loosely the narratives of the primitive history are connected with each other in the Jehovist we see very clearly in the section dealing with the flood.
From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius
At the same time this does not necessitate the conclusion that the Priestly Code is later than the Jehovist.
From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius
But this is not original, as mythic geography belongs to the Jehovist in all other passages where it occurs.
From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius
Only the Jehovist narrative of Numbers xii. seems to be nowhere referred to.
From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius
It is a point on which unanimity has not yet been reached, whether these documents are the Jehovist and Elohist of the Hexateuch; but considering the fact that the older notices in i.-ii.
From Introduction to the Old Testament by McFadyen, John Edgar
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