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  • From: "B. M. Rocine" <brocine AT twcny.rr.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] origin of evil
  • Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 08:01:12 -0400

For your consideration, b-Haverim:

When Isaiah says that YHWH creates xoshek and ra`, he means that YHWH has created the disaster for Israel at the hands of the Babylonians. In other words, YHWH creates devastating judgment.

As to the origin of this figure in the Gen creation account, there are indications that Isaiah (and Jeremiah and others) thought of the dark and watery world of Gen 1:2 as being the result of God's judgment. See Isaiah 34:8-16 (and Jeremiah 4). If so, there was pre-existent light that God had darkened as judgment. "Create darkness" in the code means "judge."

The Bible is not meant to be a physics textbook, so the hang-up on darkness being the absence of light is really off the track.

Shalom,
Bryan


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B. M. Rocine
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