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  • From: peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re[2]: The meaning of raqia
  • Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:06:55 -0400


But now you are importing cosmology from the 20th century, or at least
from after Copernicus.

Don't forget that the dictionaries are working only from the data you
have: the usage in the Hebrew Bible in context; ancient and not so
ancient translations which may have imported alien cosmologies; and
the apparent derivation from the root RQ( "beat, stamp, beat out,
spread out" (BDB). And they have some parallels of dubious value in
other Semitic languages e.g. Arabic raqa`a "patch, repair". So you may
do as well to decide for yourself from reading the texts and comparing
the usage of the verb RQ(.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re: The meaning of raqia
Author: anku AT CelsiusTech.com.au at internet
Date: 19/04/1999 20:48


<snip>

Therefore, it seems to me that the "expanse of the heavens" in Genesis 1
which was created on day 2, was in fact interstellar space.

Comments?

cheers,
Andrew
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