To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: bereshit
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:58:47 +0100
>Doesn't "bereshit" sound like what you would find in the woods after the
>bear comes out?
I do not appreciate this sort of "humour".
>My question is about Genesis 1:1. Are the seven Hebrew words a complete
>statement or any there any reason to continue to verse two.
This is what the title of this thread was aimed at
investigating.
>That is is verse
>one a complete statement and verse 2 and following speak of a restoration
>that was necessary because of the rebellion of Lucifer/Satan.
There is no talk of Lucifer or Satan in the text.
Lucifer in the one mention found in the OT/HB is
used to refer to Venus, the daystar, and
indirectly to Nebuchadnezzar. Satan, as a name is
not found in the OT/HB with the exception of Chr.
if I remember correctly, which doesn't make much
groundwork for understanding Gen 1:1-2.
The text makes clear that creation stated when God
said, "Let there be light" and the first day
started. The OT/HB says elsewhere that God does not
create confusion.