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Definition of Jahwist

Jahwist
Yahwist Yah"wist, n. Also Jahvist Jah"vist, Jahwist Jah"wist, older Jehovist Je*ho"vist The author of the passages of the Old Testament, esp. those of the Hexateuch, in which God is styled Yahweh, or Jehovah; the author of the Yahwistic, or Jehovistic, Prophetic Document (J); also, the document itself.

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- The Jahwist, or Yahwist, often abbreviated J, is one of the most widely recognized sources of the Pentateuch (Torah), together with the Deuteronomist...
- the Do****entary hypothesis, the genealogy of Cain is attributed to the Jahwist source, while the genealogy of Seth is attributed to the Priestly source...
- fragments of naming narratives coming from different sources - one being the Jahwist and the other being the Elohist. Unusual for one of the 12 tribes of Israel...
- Schmid (The So-called Jahwist, 1976, questioning the date of the Jahwistic source), Martin Rose (1981, proposing that the Jahwist was composed as a prologue...
- together from two earlier source texts, namely the Jahwist and Elohist texts. Textual scholars regard the Jahwist text and Elohist text as both having an account...
- attributed to the Jahwist, another ancient version of the same original genealogy. The two genealogies contain seven similar names, and the Jahwist's version of...
- Pentateuch is a compilation of four originally independent do****ents: the Jahwist (J), Elohist (E), Deuteronomist (D), and Priestly (P) sources. The first...
- after Yahweh; see Theophory in the Bible § Yah theophory Pertaining to the Jahwist, a hypothetical source of the Pentateuch Pertaining to Yahwism, a hypothetical...
- independent sources, which were later compiled together by a redactor: J, the Jahwist source, E, the Elohist source, P, the Priestly source, and D, the Deuteronomist...
- Heinrich Schmid showed that the Jahwist was aware of the prophetic books from the 7th and 8th centuries BCE. The Jahwist source presents Yahweh anthropomorphically:...