Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ken Penner" <ken.penner AT acadiau.ca>]

 I just read today of a new proposal for the first phrase of Genesis 1:1 by 
Rob Holmstedt, to be presented at the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies 
next month.
http://www.ccsr.ca/csbs/2006_programme_abstracts.pdf 

Ken Penner
Acadia/Greek&Hebrew
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> >I don't think we should go over the entire discussion, but I'll just 
> >give here a translation that represents the syntactic viewpoint of 
> >Rashi, Ibn Ezra, the Stone Chumash, quite a few scholars I know in 
> >Leiden, Alter's translation, etc.
> >
> >"In the beginning of God's creating the heavens and the earth - when 
> >the earth was astonishingly empty, with darkness upon the surface of 
> >the deep, and the Divine Presence hovered upon the surface of the 
> >waters - God said,  "Let there be light," and there was light.