Jehovist
noun
Jehovistic
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a word derived from
Jehovist.
Example Sentences
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The Jehovistic writer is supposed to have been a prophet, who, it would seem, was anxious to give Israel a history.
The Elohistic passages are simpler and more primitive in character than the Jehovistic; thus Gen. i, 27 is Elohistic; Gen. ii, 21-4 is Jehovistic.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
It is altogether probable that we have the same story ascribed to different actors; and when we find that the one narrative is Elohistic and the other Jehovistic, the problem is solved.
From Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Washington Gladden
Yet Leviticus xvii.-xxvi. only takes its starting-point from the Jehovistic legislation, and modifies it very considerably, somewhat in the manner of Deuteronomy.
From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen
The consideration of the context here," says Bleek, "quite apart from the changes in the naming of God, shows that the Jehovistic passages of the narrative did not originally belong to it.
From Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Washington Gladden
