Associations to the word «Elohist»

Wiktionary

ELOHIST, proper noun. 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.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky