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From: "Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>
>
> Peter, I have no idea why do you consider your knolwedge of Hebrew above
> elementary.
>
As an observer who sometimes disagrees with Peter Kirk,
he knows a lot more Biblical Hebrew than you. An
example is the following:
> ...
>
> All this besides the supposed sheer stupidity of putting two contradictory
> accounts of the creation together.
>
> Vadim Cherny
The two accounts contradict if and only if you do not use
Biblical Hebrew syntax and grammar. Modern Hebrew
uses a grammar that has elements taken from German
(Yiddish) or Russian, so I would not be surprised if the two
accounts contradict when reading with modern Hebrew
understanding. But in Biblical Hebrew the two accounts
compliment each other: one from a God's eye view and
the second from a man's eye view.