Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 10/07/2006 15:53, Bryant J. Williams III wrote:
> Yitzhak,
>
> Regarding your last paragraph. It should be noted that Ugaritic, being a 
> Semitic
> language is very close to Hebrew, which as we all know (?) is also Semitic. In
> fact, I would not be surprised that Moshe would take Tehom and "undivinize" 
> it.
> It would make complete sense for a person who is monotheistic and considers 
> all
> other "gods" as false gods, i.e., do not exist. ...

In fact this is more or less what early modern, mostly Christian, 
astronomers did with Jupiter - no longer a god but a lump of rock. 
Similarly, to Moses surely Tehom was no longer a god but a mass of water.

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