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  • From: "Ashley Crane" <acrane AT harvestwest.wa.edu.au>
  • To: "Jonathan D. Safren" <yon_saf AT bezeqint.net>, "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: begin-title/end-title
  • Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 19:09:05 +0800


Hi Jonathan

Others have it - In the beginning of God's creating...

Ashley

> Gen. 2:4a yes; Gen. 2:4b no, because it is the incipit to the second
> creation narrative, paralleling in structure the incipit to the first
story
> in Gen. 1:1. There, the first words should be understood as "When God
began
> to create. So already Rashi, later Umberto Cassuto and many moderns.






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