Elohist

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Elohist (E) is one of four sources of the Torah described by the Documentary Hypothesis. Its name comes from the term it uses for God: Elohim; 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. Its habit of locating ancestral stories in the north, espcially 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 DJP sequence written from the reign of Josiah into post-exilic times.