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noun

Jehovist n.

One who maintains that the vowel points of the word Jehovah, in Hebrew, are the proper vowels of that word; opposed to adonist.

The writer of the passages of the Old Testament, especially those of the Pentateuch, in which the Supreme Being is styled Jehovah. See Elohist. "The characteristic manner of the Jehovist differs from that of his predecessor (the Elohist). He is fuller and freer in his descriptions; more reflective in his assignment of motives and causes; more artificial in mode of narration."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... this twofold division of the non-Deuteronomic Hexateuch, until Hupfeld demonstrated in certain parts of Genesis, which until then had been assigned partly to the "main stock" and partly to the Jehovist, the existence of a third continuous source, the work of the so-called younger Elohist. The choice of this name was due to the circumstance that in this document also Elohim is the ordinary name of the Deity, as it is in the "main stock" up to Exodus vi.; the epithet "younger," ...

— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen