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  • From: Ian Goldsmith <iangoldsmith1969 AT yahoo.co.uk>
  • To: b- hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Bara: unique?
  • Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 11:08:25 +0000 (GMT)


In the hope of distracting you from the b'reshit
debate and so freeing up my mailbox....

Is it true to say that the verb 'bara' to create is
solely used in connection with God and that whilst man
may 'make' or 'do' etc, he is never recorded in the
OT as 'creating'/'bara'?

Yours
Ian.

=====
Ian Goldsmith.
England.

Dibrah Torah kilshone bnei-adam
'The Torah spoke in the language of ordinary men.'
Berakot 31b

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