Biblical Hebrew Forum

["JP vd Giessen (FOL)" <janpieter AT giessen.fol.nl>]

Karl & others,

P.J. Wiseman in "New Discoveries in Babylonia about Genesis" wrote about this
literary style.

Jan Pieter van de Giessen
Aantekeningen bij de Bijbel
http://bijbelaantekeningen.blogspot.com

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:48:38 -0500, Karl Randolph wrote
> Bryan:
> 
> )LH TWLDWT at the ends or beginnings of the sections? 
> I have heard from different sources (unfortunately in 
> lectures, not on paper) that it was a literary style that went 
> out of practice mid second millennium BC whereby the 
> author and title were added onto the end of literary works. 
> Thus the sequential time frame of creation, which only 
> God would know, was given the title "These are the 
> bringing forths (This is the narration ...) of the heavens and 
> the earth, in the day YHWH God made earth and heaven."
> 
> Thus Genesis 2:4 reflects a different document than 2:5, 
> and therefore cannot fit the pattern that you claim (unless 
> those lecturers I heard were wrong).
> 
> That they are today at the beginnings of following sections 
> is the result of the relatively modern division of chapters 
> and verses, made by people who did not know that 
> ancient practice.
> 
> Karl W. Randolph.
>