Also Jahveism, -ehism, Yahwiz’m. [f. Jahveh, Jahve, Yahwe(h, transliterations, according to different systems, of the Heb. [Hebrew] (previously represented by JEHOVAH) + -ISM.] The religion of Jahveh; the system of doctrines and precepts connected with the worship of Jahveh. b. The use of Jahve(h) as a name for God.
1867. J. Martineau, trans. Ewald’s Israel, 536, note. We purposely adopt the term Jahveism as the antithesis to Christianity, rather than Mosaism.
1877. J. E. Carpenter, trans. Tiele’s Hist. Relig., 86. Such zealous champions of Yahvism as Saul and David named their children after the Baal.
1879. Newman Smyth, Old Faiths in New Light, iv. Even the rationalistic Kuenen … rejects the possibility of an Egyptian origin for the Javehism of Moses.
1882. Athenæum, 14 Oct., 490/2. He is still ready to see in Yahwism too much the creation of the prophets.
1900. R. H. Charles, Eschatol., 13. Preprophetic Yahwism from Moses to the 8th century.
So Jahvist. a. A worshipper of Jahveh or Yahweh; b. The writer of the (non-Deuteronomic) portions of the Hexateuch which are marked by the use of Jahveh (Jehovah) as the name of God, instead of Elohim; = JEHOVIST 2. Jahvistic a., of or pertaining to Jahvism, or to the authorship of the Jahvist.
1874. trans. Kuenen’s Relig. Israel, I. 344. The stricter Jahvistic party which was led by the prophets of Jahveh.
1885. Athenæum, 16 May, 623/2. The Elohistic account is separated from the Jahvistic by a longer break.
1892. W. E. Addis, Docum. Hexat., Introd. 29. Hupfeld convinced inquirers that … three documents have been used in the compilation of Genesis: viz. that of the ‘Priestly Writer,’ of the Elohist, and of the Jahvist.
1894. A. Lang, in Contemp. Rev., Aug., 171. The rebuke and the prediction are a … Jahvehistic gloss and interpolation.
1899. R. H. Charles, Hibbert Lecture, Syllabus, Yahwistic eschatology starts from the new value set on the individual.
