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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The putative author of the earliest sources of the Hexateuch in which God is consistently referred to by the Tetragrammaton.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • 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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Examples

  • The ancient, so-called Yahwist source used here employs the name Yahweh long before the time of Moses.

    Latest Articles PugioFidei.com 2009

  • This theory posits that the Pentateuch is composed of four principal sources, termed Yahwist, Elohist, Deuteronomic, and Priestly, which were written between the time of Israel's united monarchy and the end of the Babylonian exile.

    Latest Articles PugioFidei.com 2009

  • The Yahwist creation story in Genesis (the second creation story) has God forming Eve out of Adam's rib, and Adam exclaiming their unity ("this is at last bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh").

    What Does The Bible Actually Say About Gay Marriage? 2011

  • The Elohist Creation of Genesis 1, in contrast to the Yahwist Creation of Genesis 2, carries over much of that elder cosmogony into the mythos of the monotheist God-King.

    THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART THREE Hal Duncan 2007

  • The vivid voice of the Yahwist source woven through the precise and prosaic tones of the priestly authority brings unexpected life to a story often reduced to a recitation of the animals boarding two by two to amuse small children.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Michelle 2009

  • The vivid voice of the Yahwist source woven through the precise and prosaic tones of the priestly authority brings unexpected life to a story often reduced to a recitation of the animals boarding two by two to amuse small children.

    Column: The Sluices of Heaven Michelle 2009

  • Bible, but the one who interests me and always has and always will, is the original one, the first Straha, traditionally called J or the Yahwist, probably written as early as the reign of Solomon, 3,000 years ago, in which most certainly he is as I say a stern imp, up to

    An Interview with Harold Bloom 2006

  • Perhaps Homer rendered Plato even more troubled, for even the most luminous exchanges in the dialogues cannot challenge the heroic pathos of the Iliad, which, with the Yahwist [aka "J"], Dante, Cervantes, and Shakespeare, continues to set the standard for high literature.

    Fun with Harold « So Many Books 2006

  • Indeed, many biblical specialists continue to believe that the earliest source of the Pentateuch is the J, or Yahwist, document—and that it was compiled in Judah in the era of David and Solomon, in the tenth centuryBCE.

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

  • Scholars gave the name “J” to the Yahwist source spelled Jahvist in German and “E” to the Elohist source.

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

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