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Jehovist|dʒɪˈhəʊvɪst|
[f. Jehovah + -ist.]
†1. One who holds that the vowel-points annexed to the word Jehovah in Hebrew represent the actual vowels of the word; opposed to Adonist. Obs.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Adonists, Adonists stands opposed to Jehovists [see also Adonist].
2. A name applied by Hebraists to the author (or authors) of those non-Deuteronomic parts of the Hexateuch in which the divine name is the word Yhwh, rendered ‘Jehovah’; opposed to Elohist.
Now more usually Jahvist or Yahwist, in accordance with more recent notions as to the form of the name.
1844M. Stuart O.T. Canon (1849) §3. 50 The Jehovist (proh pudor! to form such a sacrilegious appellation) i.e. the one who employs Jehovah [to designate the Godhead]. 1856Davidson Horne's Introd. II. 598 A twofold tradition seems to have been worked up by the Jehovist [in Gen. xxxvii. 23–30]. 1862― Introd. to O.T. I. 30 In biographies the difference between the Elohist and Jehovist is remarkable. 1885tr. Wellhausen's Hist. Israel 333 With the Jehovist also the genealogy underlies the narrative as its skeleton.
Hence Jehoˈvistic a., of or pertaining to the Jehovist or Jehovists, characterized by the use of the name ‘Jehovah’; also (rarely) pertaining to the religion of Jehovah. In both senses more recent writers use Jahvistic (or Yahwistic).
1841Ryland Hengstenberg on Pentat. (1847) I. 335 No instance occurs in this chapter [Gen. xii.] where, even in the Jehovistic connection, Elohim is required. 1856Davidson Horne's Introd. II. 623 A plan can be discovered in the Jehovistic as well as in the Elohistic document. 1885tr. Wellhausen in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 506/1 The second Elohist is preserved only in extracts embodied in the Jehovistic book. 1885tr. Wellhausen's Hist. Israel 91 Not only in the Jehovistic but also in the Deuteronomic legislation the festivals rest upon agriculture. |