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Yahwist

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Yah·wist  (yäwst) also Yah·vist (-vst)
n.
The putative author of the earliest sources of the Hexateuch in which God is consistently referred to by the Tetragrammaton.
Yahwism n.
Yah·wistic adj.
Yahwist, Jahwist [ˈjɑːwɪst], Yahvist, Jahvist [ˈjɑːvɪst]
n
(Christian Religious Writings / Bible) Bible
the
a.  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
b.  (as modifier) the Yahwist source
Yahwist
the author of part of the first six books in the Old Testament, so named because of numerous references therein to God as Yahweh (Jehovah). Cf. Elohist.
See also: Bible
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In his brilliantly kooky 2002 book Genius--subtitled "a mosaic of one hundred exemplary creative minds"--the esteemed Yale University literary scholar Harold Bloom included, among obvious entrants such as Shakespeare and Milton, two biblical authors: Saint Paul from the New Testament, and "the Yahwist," or J, who wrote key sections of the Old.
Old testament, new culture; can we critique sacred texts? by Kingwell, Mark / ROM Magazine
As for the god himself whose name is Elohim, He is the chief of the celestial army (a chief whose name is Yahveh as well in the yahwist version of the Old Testament of the Bible).
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When the exiled community was allowed to return to their land, and their temple was rebuilt for them, she explains, there was considerable debate about whether Jerusalem would once again become the center of Yahwist sacred landscape, a debate in which the many who had remained in Persia took part.
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