Biblical Hebrew Forum

["James Spinti" <JSpinti AT Eisenbrauns.com>]

I would suggest you read:

Creation and Destruction: A Reappraisal of the Chaoskampf Theory in the
Old Testament
by David Toshio Tsumura
Eisenbrauns, 2005
List Price: $37.50

It should be available via Google books, if you don't want to buy it or
check it out of a library. He deals extensively (and exhaustively) with
the phrase, including much Akkadian. It is a reworking and expansion of
his earlier work in the same area.

James
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[mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Richard
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 11:55 PM
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [b-hebrew] Genesis 1:2 Tohu Bohu

Is it possible that the words Tohu and  Bohu in Genesis 1:2 *could* mean
that the earth was "waste and desolate" meaning that the planet was
already
created but lay waste and desolate (probably covered with water and ice
with
even the sun extinguished) and that God basically remodeled it? ...That
even
the plants and animals already had been previously created and were
reinstated (with appropriate omissions and changes as needed)? 

Actually this question could cover the translation of most of the first
six
days. But starting with tohu bohu.

Maybe this question gets too far into theology but I'm wondering if it
is
possible (or impossible) or a legitimate way to potentially view the
Hebrew
this way. I don't have a hard opinion about it but I can't help but
wonder.
I know there may be very strong opinions against this potential view but
I
want to understand from as strictly a Hebrew point of view as possible.

Thanks

Richard Conaway

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