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