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  • From: "Liz Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>
  • To: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: tohu wa bohu
  • Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:23:45 -0400


Jeremiah describes the primeval state of tohu we bohu
in Jer. 4: 23ff.
It is obviously not amorphous matter, a fomless void,
chaos or anything like that.
It is simply barren, desolate, uninhabited, and dark.


Lisbeth S. Fried
Visiting Scholar
University of Michigan
Department of Near Eastern Studies
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
lizfried AT umich.edu

Spem successus alit.





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