Footnote 1 – Food and Faith: The Ethical Foundations of the Biblical Diet Laws

Scholars divide the Pentateuch into four principal authorial strands: J for the Yahwist (Jahwist in German), because Yahweh is the customary appellation of God in this strand; E for the Elohist, because Elohim or a form of that name is the customary appellation of God in this strand; P for the Priestly code; and D for the Deuteronomist.