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  • From: "Peter Kirk" <Peter_Kirk AT sil.org>
  • To: "'Ian Hutchesson'" <mc2499 AT mclink.it>, "'Biblical Hebrew'" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: bereshit
  • Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:20:03 -0000


No, your method here is fundamentally flawed. It is a simple linguistic
error to hold that a word or phrase can be understood apart from its
context and that putting it into context is secondary.

I have always accepted your reading as a possible one, but consider that
my one is preferable on the balance of probabilities. I was never
arguing more than that, and hoping that you would recognise that my
reading is also a possible one.

Peter Kirk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Hutchesson [mailto:mc2499 AT mclink.it]
> Sent: 15 March 2002 10:10
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: Re: bereshit
>
<snip>
>
> >If verse 1 is not a separate unit, it
> >can only be understood in its context, which is what I was
discussing.
>
> One works from the data first, then puts it in context.
>
<snip>






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