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  • From: "JP vd Giessen (FOL)" <janpieter AT giessen.fol.nl>
  • To: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>, b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] When God began to create...
  • Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:49:50 +0100

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.
>





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