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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Firmament as Dimension
  • Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:29:41 -0700

Jack,   I find it important to understand the original intent of the authors of Scripture, but language itself is not frozen in the past. Language changes, grows, and meets new times and ideas. The founders of Israel made a purposeful decision to go back and construct vocabulary for new situations and industries from Hebrew roots rather than Hebrewize foreign words. Has raqia been used in science or physics? I guess this is what I am asking. Did the word develop with time, or was there some other lucky word that got chosen?   Verna
It really doesn't matter. What matters is what the word meant to the folks who were there at the time the texts in question were written.

Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"No study of probabilities inside a given frame can ever
tell us how probable it is that the frame itself can be
violated."  C. S. Lewis








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