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
Example Sentences
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It is true that with the Jehovist also the genealogy underlies the narrative as its skeleton.
From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen
It is true that we have the oldest form of the decalogue from the Jehovist not the Elohist; but that is no valid objection against the antiquity of the nucleus, out of which it arose.
From The Canon of the Bible by Samuel Davidson
But this is merely an attempt to elude the necessity for exactly comparing the Priestly Code and the Jehovist.
From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen
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 Julius Wellhausen
The system of the Jehovist is quite a different one.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various
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