Yahwist

[ yah-wist ]

noun

1. a writer of the earliest major source of the Hexateuch, in which God is characteristically referred to as Yahweh rather than Elohim.

Yahwist

/ ˈjɑːwɪst; ˈjɑːvɪst /

noun

1. the Yahwist
   Bible
   1. the conjectured author or authors of the earliest of four main sources or strands of tradition of which the Pentateuch is composed and in which God is called Yahweh throughout
   2. ( as modifier )

      the Yahwist source

Word History and Origins

Origin of Yahwist¹

Yahw(eh) + -ist

Example Sentences

A not atypical, almost throwaway passage for you to test the waters on: “Tolstoy, as befits the writer since Shakespeare who most has the art of the actual, combines in his representational praxis the incompatible powers of Homer and the Yahwist.”

From New York Times

The story of man’s fall through Eve’s treachery is told as well as the two Genesis narratives of creation, known as the Priestly and Yahwist accounts.

From Washington Post

Two of them, the "Yahwist" and "Elohist" strands, are labeled by the different names—Yahweh and Elohim—which they used for God.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Yahwist strand portrays an anthropomorphic deity, the Elohist a spiritualized God.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Sumerian faith of ancient Babylon and the primitive Yahwist faith of Israel also preached an afterlife of agony rather than ecstasy�which was still apparently preferable to believing that death was merely obliteration.

From Time Magazine Archive