Yahwist

(-wist)

noun

the unidentified writer or writers of certain Old Testament passages in which Yahweh (Jehovah) instead of Elohim is used as the name for God

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See Yahwist in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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

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  • Yahˈwism noun
  • Yah·wisˈtic adjective
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