Elohist

American  

[e-loh-hist, el-oh-] / ɛˈloʊ hɪst, ˈɛl oʊ- /

noun

1. a writer of one of the major sources of the Hexateuch, in which God is characteristically referred to as Elohim rather than Yahweh.

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Elohist British  

/ ɛˈləʊhɪst /

noun

1. Old Testament the supposed author or authors of one of the four main strands of text of the Pentateuch, identified chiefly by the use of the word Elohim for God instead of YHVH (Jehovah)

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Other Word Forms

• Elohistic
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of Elohist

1860–65; < Hebrew ĕlōah God + -ist

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Elohist

The Yahwist strand portrays an anthropomorphic deity, the Elohist a spiritualized God.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two of them, the "Yahwist" and "Elohist" strands, are labeled by the different names—Yahweh and Elohim—which they used for God.

From Time Magazine Archive

A second or junior Elohist was less methodical and more fragmentary, supplying additional information, furnishing new theocratic details, and setting forth the relation of Israel to heathen nations and to God.

From The Canon of the Bible by Samuel Davidson

In reality, then, the date given by Berosus only differed by two days from that adopted by the Elohist compiler of Genesis.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various

It is true that we have the oldest form of the decalogue from the Jehovist not the Elohist; but that is no valid objection against the antiquity of the nucleus, out of which it arose.

From The Canon of the Bible by Samuel Davidson