Biblical Hebrew Forum

["B. M. Rocine" <brocine AT twcny.rr.com>]

Hi Karl,

For the most balanced examonation of the grammar of the first verses of 
the Bible see the fifty pages by Waltke 1975 in _Bibliotheca Sacra_ 132.

There is plenty in the Bible that suggests a previous cosmos.

Shalom,
Bryan

Karl Randolph wrote:

> 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".


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