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yahwist

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Yah⋅wist

  [yah-wist]
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–noun
a writer of the earliest major source of the Hexateuch, in which God is characteristically referred to as Yahweh rather than Elohim.
Also, Yah⋅vist  [yah-vist] , Jahvist, Jahwist.
Compare Elohist.

Origin:
Yahw(eh) + -ist
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Yah·wist   (yä'wĭst)   
n.  The putative author of the earliest sources of the Hexateuch in which God is consistently referred to by the Tetragrammaton.
Yah'wism n., Yah·wis'tic adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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