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: "Bill Ross" <wross AT farmerstel.com>
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: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
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: RE: Gen 1:1 "When God began to create"?
Date
: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 20:35:45 -0500
<Peter>
...A ridiculously over-literal translation of 1:1-2 could go something like:
In the beginning of God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth
was/became formless and void...
<Bill>
My understanding of a couple of details would be inclined to modify your
gloss thus...
"With/In a beginning, God created the heavens and the earth; and the earth
was/became unformed and unfilled..."
I lean toward "with" and because "beginning" has no definite article, so it
flows better: "with a begininng" instead of "in a beginning".
I like the way "unformed/unfilled" capture the alliteration of the original.
I believe the vowel points were added much later, so disregarding them, the
"of" difficulty disappears. Am I correct on this?
With a reading of "with a beginning", could we have textual support for a
"renewal" of the heavens and Earth occuring?
"God started with raw materials when He created the heavens and the earth,
and the Earth was formless and void"
Just asking...
Bill Ross
Gen 1:1 "When God began to create"?
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Bill Ross, 08/29/2000
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