[b-hebrew] When God began to create...

Uri Hurwitz uhurwitz at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 22 19:51:47 EST 2005


    B.M. Rocine wrote, in part:
   
  "To lend support to the idea that Gen. 1:1 should be taken as a dependent 
clause,...."
   
    The first verses of Genesis 1 are heavily influenced by the Akkadian creation epic "Enuma Eli$".  This was widely recognized since its discovery and understanding.  It begins with the phrase  "When on high...."  and continues thorough several other dependent clauses. I think it was Speiser in his Anchor Bible  translation of Genesis who intorduced the dependent clause to Gen 1:1, but perhaps he had predecessors.
      On the other  hand, none of the ancient translations or versions used a dependent clause to begin this chapter,as far as I know.
   
     I personally prefer the unamended , traditional vocalization  "Bara" of the MT.
   
     As for the various  available current new translations I prefer for stylistic reasons the one by Fox, though I never studied any of the translations closely.
   
      Uri



		
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