Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Uri:

This is a good reason that history is off limits for this group. 

Let it suffice to say that there is no documentation that 
says that Genesis was influenced from the Akkadian 
creation myth. It is just as likely that Moses got ahold of 
older documents that he used for Genesis, or that Genesis 
was independently influenced by other, common sources, 
as the Akkadian myth as the influence. I accept only one 
of the three (you probably already know which one) but it 
is irrelevant when we lack documentation to tell which 
actually happened.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Uri Hurwitz" <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
> 
>      B.M. Rocine wrote, in part:
> 
>    "To lend support to the idea that Gen. 1:1 should be taken as a dependent
> clause,...."
> 
>      The first verses of Genesis 1 are heavily influenced by the 
> Akkadian creation epic "Enuma Eli$".  This was widely recognized 
> since its discovery and understanding.  It begins with the phrase  
> "When on high...."  and continues thorough several other dependent 
> clauses. I think it was Speiser in his Anchor Bible  translation of 
> Genesis who intorduced the dependent clause to Gen 1:1, but perhaps 
> he had predecessors.
>        On the other  hand, none of the ancient translations or 
> versions used a dependent clause to begin this chapter,as far as I 
> know.
> 
>       I personally prefer the unamended , traditional vocalization  
> "Bara" of the MT.
> 
>       As for the various  available current new translations I 
> prefer for stylistic reasons the one by Fox, though I never studied 
> any of the translations closely.
> 
>        Uri
> 

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