Biblical Hebrew Forum

[dwashbur AT nyx.net]

I'll be bowing out of this thread for now, but first I need to address this:

On 17 May 2009 at 21:28, James Read wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Quoting dwashbur AT nyx.net:
> 
> > Just a few comments:
> >
> > On 17 May 2009 at 10:12, James Read wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >> The second issue which you keep sidestepping and not dealing with
> >> directly is the use of the name and title 'Yhwh God' which we do not
> >> find in Genesis 1:1-2:3 but is typical of the language of the author
> >> of Genesis 2:4 onwards. Do you intend to even acknowledge this at some
> >> point?
> >
> > He acknowledges it, but like me, he doesn't consider it significant.  
> >   I find the whole JEP
> > thing unconvincing, and to deal with a theory such as this one based  
> >  on it is nothing but
> > presupposition.
> >
> 
> Just so we're absolutely clear here. I don't buy into the whole JEP  
> thing either. That's not what I'm saying at all. However, we have to  
> recognise that there is a shift in style from Genesis 1:1-2:3 to  
> Genesis 2:4 onwards and that shift in style can be characterised by  
> the use of 'Yhwh God'. This sudden shift in style does not sit well  
> with the colophon theory independently of whether someone goes for the  
> JEP thing, which, I cannot stress enough, I don't either.

Very well.  I made the connection because your comments sounded an awful lot 
like 
something Hamilton said in the reference Yitzhak posted.  The Google thing 
won't let me 
copy and paste so I'm doing this the "old fashioned way":

"It is equally arguable that 2:4a is an introduction to what follows.  This 
is our preference, for 
the following reasons.  First, an almost insurmountable problem is created if 
one tacks on 
2:4a to 1:1-2:3, and yet wishes to hold on to Priestly (1:1-2:3) and 
Yahwistic (2:4bff.) 
creation stories."

I hope you can see how I saw similar overtones in your comment.  Nonetheless, 
I do 
apologize for the error, and stand corrected.

Dave Washburn

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