[f. JEHOV(AH + -IST.]
† 1. One who holds that the vowel-points annexed to the word Jehovah in Hebrew represent the actual vowels of the word; opposed to ADONIST. Obs.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v. Adonists, Adonists stands opposed to Jehovists [see also ADONIST].
2. A name applied by Hebraists to the author (or authors) of those non-Deuteronomic parts of the Hexateuch in which the divine name is the word [Hebrew], rendered ‘Jehovah’; opposed to ELOHIST.
Now more usually JAHVIST or Yahwist, in accordance with more recent notions as to the form of the name.
1844. M. Stuart, O. T. Canon (1849), § 3. 50. The Jehovist (proh pudor! to form such a sacrilegious appellation) i. e. the one who employs Jehovah [to designate the Godhead].
1856. Davidson, Horne’s Introd., II. 598. A twofold tradition seems to have been worked up by the Jehovist [in Gen. xxxvii. 23–30]. Ibid. (1862), Introd. to O. T., I. 30. In biographies the difference between the Elohist and Jehovist is remarkable.
1885. trans. Wellhausen’s Hist. Israel, 333. With the Jehovist also the genealogy underlies the narrative as its skeleton.
Hence Jehovistic a., of or pertaining to the Jehovist or Jehovists, characterized by the use of the name ‘Jehovah’; also (rarely) pertaining to the religion of Jehovah. In both senses more recent writers use JAHVISTIC (or Yahwistic).
1841. Ryland, Hengstenberg on Pentat. (1847), I. 335. No instance occurs in this chapter [Gen. xii.] where, even in the Jehovistic connection, Elohim is required.
1856. Davidson, Horne’s Introd., II. 623. A plan can be discovered in the Jehovistic as well as in the Elohistic document.
1885. trans. Wellhausen, in Encycl. Brit., XVIII. 506/1. The second Elohist is preserved only in extracts embodied in the Jehovistic book.
1885. trans. Wellhausen’s Hist. Israel, 91. Not only in the Jehovistic but also in the Deuteronomic legislation the festivals rest upon agriculture.
