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  • From: Karyn Traphagen <karyn AT birchbarkstudio.com>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3.8
  • Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:30:26 -0500

Jeffrey Niehaus has an interesting argument in this article:
“In the Wind of the Storm: Another Look at Genesis III 8.” _Vetus Testamentum_. 44, 2 (1994): 263-267.
He argues for a second use of _yom_ with an appeal to Akkadian evidence.

Meredith Kline has another take, defending "Spirit of the Day” (i.e., of judgment), with an appeal to Isaiah 28:6 (_Images of the Spirit_. Wipf & Stock Publishers, 1999). He also discusses the translation of the phrase in his book _Kingdom Prologue_, which can be downloaded for free (as a PDF or Word doc) at:
http://www.twoagepress.org/books.htm

Karyn Traphagen
Westminster Theological Seminary
Philadelphia

On Mar 13, 2006, at 10:13 PM, Steve Miller wrote:


How would you propose to translate le ruach in Gen 3:8 as Spirit? I don't
see a way to have Spirit make sense there.

Thanks,
-Steve Miller
Detroit

-----Original Message-----
Harold Jenkerson Wrote:

Most translations of this verse translate the Hebrew word "voice" as
"sound"
and the word "spirit" as some meteorlogical term such as "cool," rather
than
voice and spirit. Would it not be in keeping with the entire message of
the
Bible to keep to "voice" and "spirit"?

To translate as such would it go against the Hebrew grammar of the verse?

Thanks,
Harold Jenkerson





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