Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Christian M. M. Brady" <cbrady AT tulane.edu>]

On 3/18/02 10:10 PM, "Ian Hutchesson" <mc2499 AT mclink.it> wrote:

> Let me invent a criterion: if I see convincing evidence that
> a time phrase such as br'$yt can stand at the beginning of a
> book without any qualification, then I might consider it
> possible in the case of Gen 1:1, otherwise I will consider the
> notion simply unsupportable speculation.
> 
> It's not difficult to do this sort of thing.

Except we have so (relatively) few books! The data pool is too small for
such certainty.

Cb
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