elohist

Speech parts

1. elohist - Noun

2. Elohist - Proper noun

Meaning

The writer, or one of the writers, of the passages of the Old Testament, notably those of Elohim instead of Jehovah, as the name of the Supreme Being; -- distinguished from Jehovist.

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The documentary hypothesis proposes that the Torah was compiled from various original sources, two of which (the Jahwist and the Elohist ) are named for their usual names for God (YHWH and Elohim respectively). Source: Internet

It is thought that they may have been added to bring the number of poems either up to five, if inserted into the Elohist source, or up to seven, if only inserted once JE was constructed. Source: Internet

The poems themselves are considered to predate the Jahwist and Elohist, and simply to have been embedded by them in their works. Source: Internet

While the Elohist took off whatever introduction was present in the poems they chose, the Jahwist left it on. Source: Internet

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