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  • From: "Christian M. M. Brady" <cbrady AT tulane.edu>
  • To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: bereshit (translations) GfSomsel
  • Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 22:12:22 -0600


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
cbrady @ tulane.edu
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