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E. The abbreviation used by scholars to designate the Elohist source in Pentateuchal source criticism. See ELOHIST.
Freedman, D. N. (1996, c1992). The Anchor Bible Dictionary (2:245). New York: Doubleday.
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E, in modern biblical source criticism the letter that refers to materials presumed to derive from a northern Israelite milieu. The letter E itself is an abbreviation of the divine name Elohim, the use of which is taken to be one of the characteristics of this source in the patriarchal narratives. See also Sources of the Pentateuch.
Achtemeier, P. J., Harper & Row, P., & Society of Biblical Literature. (1985). Harper's Bible dictionary. Includes index. (1st ed.) (232). San Francisco: Harper & Row.
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Designation of the Elohist source, regarded as one of the principal strata of the Pentateuch.
Freedman, D. N., Myers, A. C., & Beck, A. B. (2000). Eerdmans dictionary of the Bible (361). Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans.
