yahwist

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yahwist - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Yahwist \Yah"wist\, n. Also Jahvist \Jah"vist\, Jahwist
  \Jah"wist\, older Jehovist \Je*ho"vist\
     The author of the passages of the Old Testament, esp. those
     of the Hexateuch, in which God is styled Yahweh, or Jehovah;
     the author of the Yahwistic, or Jehovistic, Prophetic
     Document (J); also, the document itself.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]