Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>]

There is a vast population in the spiritual realms, of angels and 
other spiritual beings, that were "emanated", created, before this 
physical plane was.  Probably, Bereshit is describing the first 
stages of creation of this physical plane of existence.

Shoshanna




If Yah was alone, who was he talking to? Had eternal loneliness made him
a little eccentric? Or was he addressing a close companion?

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To: JP vd Giessen (FOL); Yigal Levin
Cc: b-hebrew
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Yom in Biblical and Rabbinic Texts

And the divine choir in 1:26 is excluded?

Marc Bauer

"JP vd Giessen (FOL)" <janpieter AT giessen.fol.nl> wrote:
Hello all,

Peter wrote "viewed from a viewpoint on earth" but no human was on Earth the
first days. So can we translate "bereshit" (Gen 1:1) as "in a beginning", i.e.
God was the only One Who could observe His creation?

Jan Pieter van de Giessen

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:47:34 +0200, Yigal Levin wrote
> Hi Peter,
>
> This might be getting out of bounds for this list, but that was my
> point exactly. Understanding the word "day" in the Creation story in
> any literal sense does not work. Once you have to invent "clouds
> that hid the sun", you're already adding elements that are not in
> the text. This is good midrash, but certainly not a literal
> understanding of the text.
>
> Yigal

> > One rather obvious suggestion is that the creation is viewed from a
> > viewpoint on earth. At first, perhaps, the earth was covered by clouds
> > (and geologists agree with this) so that the sun would not have been
> > visible, but there would still have been day and night. Only later, on the
> > third "day", the clouds cleared and the sun, moon and stars became
> > visible.

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