Richard Elliott

In E, the deity is called Elohim until the arrival of Moses. From the first time that Moses meets God, this changes. In the famous E story of the day that Moses meets God—the story of the burning bush—Moses does not know God’s name, and so he asks

The deity first gives the famous response “I am what I am.”

Thus shall you say to the children of Israel; “Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.” This is my name forever: By this I shall be remembered from generation to generation