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Re: Gen 1.1-2

From: George Athas <gathas AT mail.usyd.edu.au>
To: Edgar Foster <questioning1 AT yahoo.com>
Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Gen 1.1-2
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 09:30:31 +1100

Edgar Foster wrote:

> [...]While this verse may represent one viewpoint, the apocryphal account
> found in 2 Maccabees 7:28 plainly delineates a creation out of nothing:
>
> "I beg you, child, to look at the heavens and the earth and see all
> that is in them; then you will know that God did not make them out of
> existing things; and in the same way the human race came into
> existence."

This actually contradicts Gen 2 where man is formed from the dust of the
earth.
Best regards,
GEORGE ATHAS
Dept of Semitic Studies,
University of Sydney
- Email: gathas AT mail.usyd.edu.au
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Gen 1.1-2, Irene Riegner, 01/04/1999
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Gen 1.1-2, Ian Hutchesson, 01/04/1999
- Re: Gen 1.1-2, Irene Riegner, 01/04/1999
- Re: Gen 1.1-2, Edgar Foster, 01/04/1999
- Re[2]: Gen 1.1-2, Peter_Kirk, 01/05/1999
- Re: Gen 1.1-2, George Athas, 01/05/1999
- Re: Gen 1.1-2, George Athas, 01/05/1999
- Gen 1.1-2, Kevin L. Barney, 01/29/2024