Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Bryan:

Not only is Peter's critique of English legitimate, but the 
accuracy to the Hebrew seems to take a back seat to his 
philosophical presuppositions.

Looking at the Hebrew, there is no "When" nor "began" in 
the first verse, along with an added "then" in the second 
verse indicate an ideational viewpoint it looks as if they 
were added to make the translation say the same things 
as did most ancient creation myths, that started out with a 
pre-existing earth that the gods then made order out of 
chaos. He left off the definite articles for both "heaven" and 
"earth".

The use of "God's breath" looks as a deliberate 
anthropomorphism, to make God look like the same 
picture from Babylon, as a sort of superman with the 
same physical characteristics as a human.

There are other objections as well, but those should 
suffice. If that is typical of the rest of his translation, I 
wouldn't waste my time with it.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kirk" <peter AT qaya.org>
> 
> 
> > “When God began to create heaven and earth, and the earth then 
> > was welter and waste and darkness over the deep and God’s breath 
> > hovering over the waters, God said, ‘Let there be light’. And 
> > there was light.”
> 
> ,,,
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> Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
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