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

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

According to the figures of the Elohist, Noah lives on among his descendants for 350 years, and dies at the age of 950.

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

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)

It is a point on which unanimity has not yet been reached, whether these documents are the Jehovist and Elohist of the Hexateuch; but considering the fact that the older notices in i.-ii.

From Introduction to the Old Testament by McFadyen, John Edgar