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  • From: "Reginald Wallace Ponder, Jr." <rwponder AT minister.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Bara: unique?
  • Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:53:15 -0500


>
Ian --
I did such a study about three years ago and found that every occurence of
BARA in the Bible has the Almighty as its subject. Of course, I looked
them up "manually," rather than by computer, so the whole human error
thing is possible. But anyway, I am confident that BARA always is used of
God.
Shalom,
Rev. Reggie Ponder, Jr.
Rainbow United Methodist Church
Snow Hill, NC USA


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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