Talk:Jahwist

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Yahwist/Yahvist/Jahwist/Jahvist

In the US, UK and in most English theologic literature one finds the term Yahwist much more commonly than Jahwist. The origin of the term Yahwist/Jahwist derives from the English transliteration of the Hebrew word Yahweh.Yahweh It is again Yahweh which is the preferred spelling in English. J source derives from Jahwist but it was Germans who started the terminology.

I don't know why we have taken the tack of using the less preferred spelling(Jahwist) here on Wikipedia.


Yahwist's Landscape: Nature and Religion in Early Israel, The Theology Today, Apr 1997 by Werner E Lemke[1]

Farming for God: a religion of the soil? - The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age. By Norman Wirzba; The Yahwist's Landscape: Nature and Religion in Early Israel. By Theodore Hiebert; The Ethos of the Cosmos: The Genesis of Moral Imagination in the Bible. By William P. Brown - Book Review [2]

Online Dictionaries referencing Yahweh and Yahwist

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/yahweh?view=uk http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/Yahwist http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=jahwist http://www.infoplease.com/ipd/A0498730.html http://www.bartleby.com/61/22/Y0002200.html

Mansell 19:34, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] year?

Anyone have a good idea for when J was written? 900 BCE? 800? Jonathan Tweet 01:28, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Between approximately 922 (break-up of the united kingdom) and 722 BC (fall of the northern kingdom of Israel). Friedman points out that J (given to word-games) makes multiple use of the root r-h-b - six times in J, never in E - which is the root of Rehoboam, first king of the southern kingdom of Judah. PiCo 05:28, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Jahwist source isolated, at wikisource

This has been deleted from wikisource: Former Page and Proposed Deletion Log. Should we delete the remaining link in External links, or find a new source? And if we choose a new source, what's a reputable one? Fufthmin 21:48, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

It should be put back as a source text, it's essential to treating the DH (although if there's some other online source that can be used as an external link I'd be happy with that). PiCo 05:29, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
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