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["Jonathan D. Safren" <yon_saf AT bezeqint.net>]

Same thing, no?
Jonathan D. Safren
Chairman
Dept. of Biblical Studies
Beit Berl College
44905 Israel
----- Original Message -----
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>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: begin-title/end-title


> 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.
>
>