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Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 1:5

From: Bearpecs AT aol.com
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 1:5
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 21:51:22 EDT

Here's what Speiser says:
(_Genesis: Introduction, Translation, and Notes_ by E.A. Speiser [The Anchor
Bible, vol. 1], 1964)

In Semitic (notably in Akkadian, cf. Gilg., Tablet XI, lines 215ff.) the
normal ordinal series is "one, second, third," etc., not "first, second,
third,"
etc.; cf. also ii 11.

Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 1:5, Bearpecs, 08/04/2003