Jahwist

Not to be confused with Yahwism.
"J-Source" redirects here. For J-Source (website), see Canadian Journalism Foundation.
Diagram of the supplementary hypothesis, a popular model of the composition of the Torah. The Jahwist is shown as J.
Diagram of the 20th century documentary hypothesis.

The Jahwist, or Yahwist, often abbreviated J, is one of the most widely recognized sources of the Pentateuch (Torah), together with the Deuteronomist, the Priestly source and the Elohist. The existence of the Jahwist text is somewhat controversial, with a number of scholars, especially in Europe, denying that it ever existed as a coherent independent document.[4] Nevertheless, many scholars do assume its existence.[5] The Jahwist is so named because of its characteristic use of the term Yahweh (German: Jahwe; Hebrew: יהוה) for God.[6]

  1. ^ a b Viviano 1999, p. 40.
  2. ^ a b Gmirkin 2006, p. 4.
  3. ^ Viviano 1999, p. 41.
  4. ^ Römer 2006, p. 9, "Even scholars still holding to this [Documentary] model, such as Horst Seebass, for instance, must concede: 'Among all source critical-theories about the Pentateuch, J is the most unstable one.'"
  5. ^ Baden 2009, pp. 305–313.
  6. ^ Gilbert 2009, p. 31.