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Please remove me from the list, and thanks for all the information.

Robert
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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:51:03 -0400
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] tob in Genesis 1
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Appears to me that KI TOB is 'in the right direction' towards the
creation of an integrated and sustainable world.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Mar 23, 2010, at 6:34 PM, Bryant J. Williams III wrote:

> Dear Petr,
>
> Let us speak to what the text says not to what "supposed sources"
> are that
> cannot be proved one way or the other.
>
> TOB in TWOT, Vol. 1, pp. 345 - 346, indicates five areas of meaning:
> 1) practical, economic, or material good,
> 2) abstract goodness such as desirability, pleasantness, and
> beauty,
> 3) quality or expense
> 4) moral goodness,
> 5) technical philosophical sense.
>
> I would take the use of TOB in Genesis 1, since it is an adjective
> here (1:4,
> 10, 12, 18, 21, 25 & 31) as referring to the idea of
> qualitativeness. The remark
> of, "it is good" is the description that God gives to that part of
> creation of
> each day with "very good" being given for the sixth day as a
> description of the
> results of the Creation of Man and Woman (Genesis 2 is merely a
> more detailed
> description of that 6th day). Thus, TOB "good" = perfect.
>
> Genesis 2:9 (2x), 12 are used in a moral and qualitative/
> descriptive uses;
> while, 2:18 is more of a qualitative use, because it is a judgement
> of God about
> the singleness of man ('Adam), not a moral judgement.
>
> See also Nelson's Expository Dictionary of the Old Testament, pp.
> 162-164; A
> Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, pp. 99-100. I do not
> have access to
> TDOT.
>
> Rev. Bryant J. Williams III
>




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