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ɛˈloʊ hɪst, ˈɛl oʊ-elo·hist
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Elohistnoun
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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Elohist
The Elohist is one of four sources of the Torah identified by biblical scholars. Its name comes from Elohim, the term it uses for God. It is characterised by, among other things, an abstract view of God, using "Horeb" instead of "Sinai" for the mountain where Moses received the laws of Israel and the use of the phrase "fear of God". It habitually locates ancestral stories in the north, especially Ephraim, and the documentary hypothesis holds that it must have been composed in that region, possibly in the second half of the 9th century BCE. Recent reconstructions leave out the Elohist altogether, proposing a Deuteronomist-Jahwist-Priestly source sequence written from the reign of Josiah into post-exilic times.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Elohist
a name given by the critics to the presumed author of the earlier part of the Pentateuch, whose work in it they allege is distinguished by the use of the word Elohim for God; he is to be distinguished from the Jehovist, the presumed author of the later portions, from his use, on the other hand, of the word Jehovah for God.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of elohist in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of elohist in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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