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  The g-d of the monotheistic religions (Islam, Christianity and Judaism) started out as the g-d of the Jews.
  The Jews called it by many names: Yahweh, Elohim, El, Elah, Eloah.
  El was the name of a person.  Elohim refers to El's seventy children.
  This is the gossip on the Dead Sea Scrolls, from a student of one of the scrolls' top scholarly researchers.