On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 14:42:26 +0300 "Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>
writes:
> 1) alah min has an attested sense of migration or, at any rate, of
> meaningful ascent. That turn is inapplicable to mist.
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Says who? You? No authority. Rubbish. Go learn Hebrew.
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> 2) "formed from the dust of the ground" would be min-aphar haadama.
> The text, however, is, aphar min-haadama.
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It isn't "formed from dust from the ground" but "formed dust from the
ground"
Go learn Hebrew.
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> 3) "breathed life into his nostrils" is implausible, because nph b
> has an attested sense of "to blow into someone's face, reject."
> Ezekiel 37:9, the only exception, is recursively modeled upon
> Gen2:7.
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It isn't "breathed life into his nostrils" but "breathed the breath of
life into his nostrils"
Go learn Hebrew.
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> 4) "became a living soul" ignores the preposition le, "became for a
> living soul."
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And how would you read 1 Kg 2.2?
Go learn Hebrew.
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> And an exegetical question, Would any of you profess the religion
> where God formed people and animals from earth?
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> Vadim Cherny
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