Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Herman Meester <crazymulgogi AT gmail.com>]

BM Rocine has contributed:

B-Haverim,

To lend support to the idea that Gen. 1:1 should be taken as a dependent
clause, I think it is worth mentioning the syntactical parallel between
Gen. 1:1-3 and Gen 2:4b-7, <dependent clause-parenthetical-main clause>,
shown here:
(...)

Herman:
Brilliant!
And thank you for some deepening of our understanding of Hebrew.
This is indeed exactly the same structure; I wonder how Karl and other
opponents will sort this out. It is almost impossible to ignore this.