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 22:38:05 +0800
Hi Jonathan
It all depends on if one sees BARA as the same as ex-nilo ...
Ashley
> Same thing, no?
> Jonathan D. Safren
> >
> > Others have it - In the beginning of God's creating...
> > > 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.