Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear Yigal,

Oh boy....

HH: Right.

> How conceited! That God would reviel to Moses what only WE (or YOU) can
> understand!

HH: Right.

>  > 2)  God is light, and in Him is no  darkness
>
> Who said?

HH: This comes from the New Testament:

1John 1:5 ¶ This is the message we have heard 
from him and declare to you: God is light; in him 
there is no darkness at all.

> Where did
>  > God  have to go in order to find darkness?
> >  3)  Suppose the "seven days" are not in  chronological order?
> >  Jesus gave a  different order in the gospels.
>
> Jesus (or the Evangelists) were well aquainted with the midrashic concept of
> "there is no early and late in the Torah". This gives the interpreter
> license to do almost anything. We just must remember that midrash is just
> that - midrash and not a literal interpretation.

HH: I cannot think of a place where Jesus changed 
the order of the seven days. This looks like a 
misunderstanding.

                                Yours,
                                Harold Holmyard