[f. ELOH(IM) + -IST.] The name given by Hebraists to the author (or authors) of those parts of the Hexateuch that are marked by the use of Elohim as the name of God instead of Yahveh (popularly written Jehovah). See JEHOVIST, YAHVIST.
1862. H. J. Rose, in Replies to Ess. & Rev., 77. Ilgen imagined two Elohists and one Jehovist.
1882–3. Schaff, Relig. Encycl., II. 1043/1. Amended by a younger Elohist and a Jehovistic editor.
