Elohist English

Meaning Elohist meaning

What does Elohist mean?

Elohist properNoun

— One of four sources of the Torah described by the documentary hypothesis, characterized by an abstract view of God.

Elohist noun

— 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.