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Yahwist
Yahwist [ ywist ] or Yahvist [ yvist ]


noun 
Definition:
 
Bible writer using Tetragrammaton: the unknown writer of the parts of the Bible in which the set of four letters YHWH Tetragrammaton is used to refer to God
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