Elohist

The Elohist (E) is one of four sources of the Torah identified by biblical scholars. Its name comes from Elohim, the term it uses for God. 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". It habitually locates ancestral stories in the north, especially 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 Deuteronomist-Jahwist-Priestly source sequence written from the reign of Josiah into post-exilic times.