From: "Stephen C. Carlson" <scarlson AT mindspring.com>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: The 24 hour "evening and mornings" ??? (Stephen)
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 21:08:26 -0400
At 05:14 PM 8/30/00 +0200, Ian Hutchesson wrote:
>I
>in no way claim that the Hebrews worked on a notion of 24 hours: it is for
>modern readers' convenience.
I'm all in favor of convenience -- unless that convenience is an excuse
to engage in sloppy thinking. If you are unwilling to claim that the
Hebrews worked on a notion of 24 hours, why smuggle that meaning into
the text under the guise of "convenience"?
...
>Could you supply some other way for us "moderns" to understand the period
>of time which the writer indicates passes between one morning and the next
>(the standard supplied in Gen1)?