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stupid question of the year

From: "Jeremy Sasser" <jeremy AT fish.pair.com>
To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: stupid question of the year
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:45:30 -0700

I had wondered about this before when reading Genesis 1:1 in Hebrew - I don't know if you guys have already discussed this, but anyway:

Why is 'bereshit' translated as 'in THE beginning' when there's a schwa and not that 'a' thingy which indicates definite article? Shouldn't it be like "in A beginning" (yeah, I know it sounds weird in English, but still...)

Please enlighten me...

Jeremy

stupid question of the year, Jeremy Sasser, 08/29/2000
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