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  • From: "Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>
  • To: "George F Somsel" <gfsomsel AT juno.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 2:5
  • Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 10:30:59 +0300

First, what in the world does "all small talk in the fields was not [no
more]" mean to you? To me it is meaningless unless perhaps you're
talking about gossiping in the fields.

Workers in the field very characteristically chat, or at least the situation is so idealized by poets. It is a persistent topic, for example, of Ukrainian poetry; agriculture was a major occupation in that country.

Second, the fact that even drought-resistant plants can't grow with
absolutely no moisture is precisely the point: There was neither rain
nor a man to "work", i.e. irrigate, the ground.

It seems more likely that ancients did not relate desert shrubs with underground water. They rather imagined that shrubs grow without water.

Vadim Cherny




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