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tohu wa bohu

From: "Daladier Lima" <daladier AT elogica.com.br>
To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: tohu wa bohu
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:38:42 -0300

Another day I have posted a message about this. Only Isaiah and Jeremiah write the term, and the same chaos is visible in Bereshit.

Daladier Lima

Brazil

----- Original Message -----

From: Liz Fried <lizfried AT umich.edu>

To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>

Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 2:23 PM

Subject: tohu wa bohu

> 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

tohu wa bohu, Liz Fried, 09/12/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- tohu wa bohu, Daladier Lima, 09/12/2000
- Re: tohu wa bohu, barre, 09/15/2000
- Re: tohu wa bohu, Daladier Lima, 09/16/2000