[OT] References to Deity in Genesis 2

• "Elohim" ("God") is used exclusively in chap 1.  "YHWY Elohim" (i.e. "Lord God" or "Jehovah God") is used almost exclusively in this chapter except in the conversation between the serpent and woman ("Elohim" only).  After this, "YHWH Elohim" is not used together in Genesis.  "YHWH" is not used in the serpent conversation because God's name is holy.
  

• Cassuto rejects the documentary hypothesis and explains the use of the titles of deity this way:
• YHWH occurs when scripture reflects the concept of God -- his ethical aspect regarding the people of Israel
• Elohim occurs in the abstract conception of God in international circles and as the creator of the material world, ruler of nature and source of life
• YHWH expresses the direct and intuitive notion of God among the unsophisticated faith of the multitude
• Elohim conveys the concept of those philosophically minded
• YHWH expresses God's personal nature in relationship to humans or nature
• Elohim  occurs speaking of God as a transcendental being outside of nature