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Yahwist
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.
Meaning of Yahwist from wikipedia
- The Jahwist, or
Yahwist,
often abbreviated J, is one of the most
widely recognized sources of the
Pentateuch (Torah),
together with the Deuteronomist...
- hypothesis,
which posits that the
Torah is the
result of two
major additions—
Yahwist and Priestly—to an
existing corpus of work.
Other scholars, such as Richard...
-
Ritual Ten Commandments, the
Cultic Ten Commandments, the J-Decalogue or
Yahwist Decalogue, the Exodus-34
Decalogue or
Decalogue of
Exodus ****iv, or the...
- four
source do****ents
underlying the Torah,
together with the
Jahwist (or
Yahwist), the
Deuteronomist and the
Priestly source. The
Elohist is so
named because...
-
combining two
identifiable sources, the
Jehovist ("J"; also
called the
Yahwist) and the
Elohist ("E").
These sources were
subsequently found to run through...
-
literary strata within the Pentateuch,"
which have come to be
known as the
Yahwist (J), the
Priestly Writer (P), and the
Deuteronomist (D). Van
Seters ordered...
-
moral decline in Israel,
though modern scholars argue that Ahab was a
Yahwist himself. The
existence of Ahab is
historically supported outside the Bible...
-
earlier than the
first decades of the 4th
century BCE; on the
other hand the
Yahwist source has been
dated by some scholars,
notably John Van Seters, to the...
- them
because they
considered the
latter to be
Yahwist heresy. The
Mesha Stele likewise mentions the
Yahwist orientation of the
Omrides ("And
Chemosh said...
- held that the five
books of the
Pentateuch came from four sources: the
Yahwist (abbreviated as J), the
Elohist (E), the
Deuteronomist (D) and the Priestly...
