Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Lloyd:

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 3:35 PM, LM Barre <l_barre AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> Context decides.  The waters are not created in Gen 1:2.  They pre-exist as
> in Egyptian cosmology.
>

Here you are reading your presuppositions into the text.

There is nothing here in the text itself that indicates that the waters
pre-existed. This is a rather simple piece of prose where
the exegetical reading of the text indicate that the waters were created as
part of the creation of the earth.

Many of us consider eisegesis (reading ideas into the text which are not
explicitly there) as invalid. Further that is a practice of theology, not
linguistic analysis.

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> Lloyd Barré, PhD
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Karl W. Randolph.