From: "Ashley Crane" <acrane AT harvestwest.wa.edu.au>
To: "Jonathan D. Safren" <yon_saf AT bezeqint.net>, "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: begin-title/end-title
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 19:09:05 +0800
Hi Jonathan
Others have it - In the beginning of God's creating...
Ashley
> Gen. 2:4a yes; Gen. 2:4b no, because it is the incipit to the second
> creation narrative, paralleling in structure the incipit to the first
story
> in Gen. 1:1. There, the first words should be understood as "When God
began
> to create. So already Rashi, later Umberto Cassuto and many moderns.