The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elohist \E*lo"hist\, n.
The writer, or one of the writers, of the passages of the Old
Testament, notably those of the Pentateuch, which are
characterized by the use of Elohim instead of Jehovah, as the
name of the Supreme Being; -- distinguished from Jehovist.
--S. Davidson.
Wikipedia
The Elohist (or simply E) is, according to the documentary hypothesis, one of four sources of the Torah, together with the Yahwist, the Deuteronomist and the Priestly source. Its name comes from Elohim, the term used in the Hebrew and Canaanite languages for the Gods. It is characterized 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. Some recent reconstructions leave out the Elohist altogether, proposing a Deuteronomist- Jahwist- Priestly sequence for the Torah written from the reign of Josiah into post- exilic times.
Usage examples of "elohist".
The Elohist was the older, and his narrative was the ground-work which the Jehovist used and upon which he constructed his own additions.