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  • From: "Tony Costa" <tmcos AT hotmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Gen 1:2
  • Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 21:09:14


Dear Friends,

I was just thinking about Gen 1:2 with regards to RuaCH 'eLoHiYM. Is 'eLoHiYM used here without the definite article an adjective or still a noun? While most translations render this verse "the Spirit of God", a few have rendered it "an awesome wind". The NWT (New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures) published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Jehovah's Witnesses render it God's "active force". Can someone comment on why the preferred reading is "Spirit of God" in this passage, and would "active force" as used in the NWT be a faithful translation of the original Hebrew? Many thanks.

Tony Costa

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