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  • From: Bearpecs AT aol.com
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: RE: Gen 1:2-- thwm
  • Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 20:39:59 EDT

In a message dated 8/1/01 10:00:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
dillfest95 AT hotmail.com writes:
Thwm never has the article, anywhere it appears. I don't know why. Maybe it
is a proper name?


This is a reasonable assumption.  It may or may not be related to the deity
Tiamat.  

Everett Fox translates this verse:  
"when the earth was wild and waste,
darkness over the face of Ocean,
rushing-spirit of G-d hovering over the face of the waters --"
and he comments:  "Ocean:  The primeval waters, a common (and usually divine)
image in ancient Near Eastern mythology."

Hayyim



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