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  • From: Yigal Levin <Yigal-Levin AT utc.edu>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: God Measured?
  • Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:27:31 -0400


In an article published in JANES 27 (2000), Rainey suggested that Gen. 2:2
"wykl elhym" be understood as "And God measured the work he had done.."
rathen than the usual "completed". His theory is that this "wykl" is from
the root *kwl/kyl "to measure", as in Is. 40:12 "wkl bsls". He quotes Enuma
Elish IV 141, where Marduk measures the abyss. This would end the need for
"creative interpretaion" to explain how God, after finishing on the sixth
day, then has to finish again on the seventh day.

Any thought on this?



Dr. Yigal Levin
Dept. of Philosophy and Religion
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga TN 37403-2598
U.S.A.



  • God Measured?, Yigal Levin, 07/23/2002

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