Biblical Hebrew Forum

[joel AT exc.com]

>The proto-doto-babylonski-Anglo form 'tiyemta' is a direct linguistic  
>ancestor of 'Tiamat'. This shows, beyond an absolute shadow of a  
>doubt, that the oldest manuscript of the English tradition of the  
>creation account in Genesis 1 is actually a pious fraud based on the  
>pagan creation accounts of ancient Babylon.

Proving Mark Twain's claim that, "there is something fascinating about
science.  One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a
trifling investment of fact."

-Joel





Joel M. Hoffman, PhD
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Director of Education
Temple Israel of Northern Westchester
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