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  • From: Will Wagers <hyle AT gte.net>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: re: the land
  • Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 14:54:04 -0600


On Friday Jan 22 Jim West wrote:
>My point is merely that perhaps, again, perhaps, the focus
>of v.1 is the "land" in the narrow sense of the land of Israel; and that
>from THERE the author expands his horizons to the whole of the universe.
>In other words, God starts with the "land" and makes all the rest of creation
>around it.

Some Egyptian creation myths refer to a "hill" which is exposed when the
waters recede, apparently a reference to the way the land reappeared
following the annual inundation of the Nile.

Will Wagers hyle AT gte.net "Reality is the best metaphor."



  • the land, Jim West, 01/21/1999
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • Re: the land, Peter_Kirk, 01/22/1999
    • Re: The Land, Joshua Family Kfar Etzion, 01/22/1999
    • re: the land, Will Wagers, 01/24/1999

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