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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Davidson, Samuel

What effect this demonstration may have on the judgment we form of the Elohist himself is as yet uncertain.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius

This Elohist account is defined to be "a series of parables, based, as we have said, on legendary facts, though not historically true."

From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)