From: "George Athas" <gathas AT globalfreeway.com.au>
To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Gen 1:2 "was"/"became"
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 02:37:31 +1000
| << There are indeed examples in which hyh clearly
| means *became* that do not have lamed on either
| an "indirect object" or a "direct object."
|
| Gen 19:26, 21:20, 25:27, Exo 8:13, to
| name a few. Gen 19:26 goes like this:
|
| vatthi netsib melax
| "And she became a pillar of salt." >>
The problem with this example is that it is a waw-consecutive - not a perfect
verb.
|
| Thank you for acknowledging that an exegetical
| analysis of this passage does not deny us the
| possibility of an Earth which "became" void and
| without form.
The author uses a perfect verb which we would be best translating as a
pluperfect -- "and
the earth had been disordered and disarrayed..."
There is no comment on whether they "became" disordered and disarrayed, or
whether that
was their original state.
Best regards,
GEORGE ATHAS
- Anglican Chaplaincy, UNSW;
- Southern Cross College,
Sydney, Australia
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