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Elohist

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El·o·hist  (l-hst, -l-)
n.
The putative author of the earliest sources of the Pentateuch in which God is called Elohim.
Elo·histic adj.
Elohist
the author of part of the first six books in the Old Testament, so named because of references to God as Elohim. Cf. Yahwist.
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Thus, David Carr (1996) believes that the "non-P" author wove loose Yahwistic and Elohistic oral fragments together into a unified work, and no separate organized Yahwist or Elohist existed in a self-contained form.
An overlooked message: the critique of kings and affirmation of ... by Gnuse, Robert K. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
Some scholars have suggested that these verses are a conflation of two traditions, the Elohist in verses 12-15a and 18b and verses 15b-18a of Priestly origin.
The transfiguration of our Lord: February 6, 2005 by Currents in Theology and Mission
date for oral "pools" of Elohist traditions in which the older prophetic narratives in Kgs might have influenced the shape of Elohist Pentateuchal narratives (and subsequent Yahwist narratives, if they indeed are exilic).
Thomas L. Brodie, The Crucial Bridge: the Elijah-Elisha Narrative as ... by Gruse, Robert Karl / Biblical Theology Bulletin
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