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- From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
 - To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
 - Subject: RE: raqia encore
 - Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:19:47 -0600
 
> Ian, you have no evidence that Enuma Elish is part of this context, that
> it was known to the author Genesis 1. The only link you mention is one
> cognate word, used in a very different sense. I agree that the link is
> possible, but not that it is indisputable. There is a little more
> evidence that the authors of Ps 74, 89 etc were acquainted with some
> kind of Enuma Elish tradition, but the link may be extremely tenuous,
> certainly not necessarily knowledge of a specific work.
>
Do we really need to go over this ground again? It was just a few
months ago that we went around and around over the purported
tehom/tiamat cognate, the place of Enuma Elish in the grand
scheme of things, and all the rest. That discussion got nowhere;
does anybody really think it will be different this time?
Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
You know you're a lousy artist when you can't
draw a straight line on an Etch-a-Sketch.
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            raqia encore,
            Ian Hutchesson, 07/20/2002
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
 - Re: raqia encore, Rolf Furuli, 07/21/2002
 - Re: raqia encore, Ian Hutchesson, 07/21/2002
 - Re: raqia encore, Rolf Furuli, 07/22/2002
 - Re: raqia encore, Ian Hutchesson, 07/22/2002
 - Re: raqia encore, Rolf Furuli, 07/23/2002
 - RE: raqia encore, Bill Ross, 07/23/2002
 - Re: raqia encore, Ian Hutchesson, 07/24/2002
 - RE: raqia encore, Peter Kirk, 07/24/2002
 - RE: raqia encore, Dave Washburn, 07/24/2002
 - RE: raqia encore, Peter Kirk, 07/24/2002
 - RE: raqia encore, Dave Washburn, 07/24/2002
 - Re: raqia encore, Ian Hutchesson, 07/24/2002
 - Re: raqia encore, Dave Washburn, 07/24/2002
 - Re: raqia encore, Ian Hutchesson, 07/27/2002
 - Re: raqia encore, Dave Washburn, 07/27/2002
 - Re: raqia encore, Ian Hutchesson, 07/27/2002
 - RE: raqia encore, Peter Kirk, 07/27/2002
 - Re: raqia encore, Ian Hutchesson, 07/27/2002
 - Re: raqia encore, Rolf Furuli, 07/28/2002
 
 
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