To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Gen 1:1 "When God began to create"?
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 21:46:16 -0500
<Liz>
The Hebrew Bible does not have creatio ex nihilo.
<Bill>
I heard that beree'shiyt had an intrinsic meaning of "create" whereas the
subsequent word was "formed". Is this true? As you may have seen in my other
post, I think some of the wording lends toward reading this record to be of
a renewal, but the meaning of beree'shiyt seemed to militate against that.