To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Gen 1:1 "When God began to create"?
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 06:48:27 -0700
Liz,
> Dear Bill,
> You may be confusing something else. The word bar(a is usually translated
> create, and I think is only used with God as the subject. The word yCr
> (yatsar)
> is usually translated to form, and can have both humans and God as subject.
> This being the case, some people suppose that bara always implies
> creatio ex nihilo, but that is not correct.
How do you draw this conclusion from the material presented? I
frankly don't see it. In Gen 1 we also have `asah to deal with and
fit into this word group.