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  • From: "Rolf Furuli" <furuli AT online.no>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] bara vs' bero in Genesis 1:1
  • Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 06:53:27 +0100

Dear Ytizhak and James.

Not all scholars agree that there is a relationship between Tiamat and THWM. C. Westermann "Genesis 1-11 A Commentary" p. 105 writes:
"Tiamat is a mythical being and THWM never has this meaning in the Old Testament. The phrase "upon the face of the deep" shows that it is not a case of a mythical being but of a flood of water. It is impossible phonetically and grammatically to derive THWM from the Babylonian Tiamat; THWM has a masculine ending, Tiamat a feminine; the H of the Hebrew THWM cannot be explained as deriving from Tiamat."

Best regards,

Rolf Furuli
University of Oslo


----- Original Message ----- From: "JAMES CHRISTIAN READ" <JCR128 AT student.apu.ac.uk>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 12:19 AM
Subject: [b-hebrew] bara vs' bero in Genesis 1:1


Yitzhak wrote:
The word Tiamat is a perfect cognate of the Hebrew word Tehom. The word
Tehom appears without the he before it (compare the word ha)arec at the end
of the verse), which suggests that it may be a proper name.
END QUOTE

JCR: So, Genesis would read that darkness was on the face
of Tiamat rather than on the face of the deep?

James C. Read
UK

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