Then, in 1753, Jean Astruc, a French doctor with an interest in biblical studies, argued that Genesis was actually the fruit of two basic documents that had been amalgamated, or intertwined. He said that there is one source which describes God as ‘Elohim’ and a second source which refers to God as ‘Jehovah’. These came to be known, and are still accepted, as the E and J sources.79

