Biblical Hebrew Forum

[robertsumner0110 AT wmconnect.com]

Hi Ron,



It can also be translated 'dry land' here, without meaning a division of the 
land itself.  For instance, Hippolytus devoted the second section of his 
Chronicon to the apportioning of the earth among the sons of Noah.  The title 
of that section is, appropriately, the Diamerismos tes ges, the 'division of 
the earth.'  The context here, as well as the historical interpretation of 
the verse, indicates that the idea is that in the days of Peleg the earth was 
divided (in the sense of an inheritance) among the descendants of those who 
had survived the flood.   


Robert Shannon Sumner