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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The putative author of the earliest sources of the Pentateuch in which God is called Elohim.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A title given to the supposed writer (a unity of authorship being assumed) of the Elohistic passages of the Pentateuch, in contradistinction to Jehovist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The writer, or one of the writers, of the passages of the Old Testament, notably those of the Pentateuch, which are characterized by the use of
Elohim instead ofJehovah , as the name of the Supreme Being; -- distinguished fromJehovist .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun One of four
sources of theTorah described by the documentary hypothesis, characterized by anabstract view ofGod .
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Examples
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From what we can observe, neither the Jahvist nor the Elohist was a personal author.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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The Elohist was the older, and his narrative was the ground-work which the Jehovist used and upon which he constructed his own additions. [
History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology 1868
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The Elohist Creation of Genesis 1, in contrast to the Yahwist Creation of Genesis 2, carries over much of that elder cosmogony into the mythos of the monotheist God-King.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART THREE Hal Duncan 2007
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To me, the book of Genesis is a compound literary document, written by multiple authors one is called by scholars E, or the Elohist and grafted together by priestly redactors.
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Hey MA i think I hear Tim Mcveigh, a theocratic Elohist christian terrorist calling you from beyond!
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Scholars gave the name “J” to the Yahwist source spelled Jahvist in German and “E” to the Elohist source.
The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001
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Scholars gave the name “J” to the Yahwist source spelled Jahvist in German and “E” to the Elohist source.
The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001
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Scholars gave the name “J” to the Yahwist source spelled Jahvist in German and “E” to the Elohist source.
The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001
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Scholars gave the name “J” to the Yahwist source spelled Jahvist in German and “E” to the Elohist source.
The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001
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Jehovist and Elohist of the Hexateuch; but considering the fact that the older notices in i. -ii. 5, on account of the prominence of Judah and for other reasons, are usually assigned to J, and that some of the characteristics of these two documents recur in the course of the book, the hypothesis that J and E are continued at least into
Introduction to the Old Testament John Edgar McFadyen
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