Dear Peter,To be sure, I do not think the masoretes are never wrong, or that theyare divinely inspired. I just think it is highly unlikely they wouldnot have known exactly what they were handing down to us in this case;we are talking about the first verses of Tora, not something somewherein Chronicles.>I admit, "בראשית BR)$YT" may have been meant as "in the beginning". Myintent was, however, to respect MT first, and then try to make senseof it; only if that really doesn't work we could look for extra-MTsolutions, like emendations and the like.>Don't you think by the way, the parallel with Gen 2,4-7 is remarkable?It supports "my" understanding of Gen 1,1-3 very well.>About LXX, it's true it's an old source, yet it's a translation madein Egypt for a Greek audience. The translators and how good theirHebrew was we may never know, and how much did they adjust the Hebrewtext to fit their theology?>About my theology with the "light" and so on, I do agree with you: wefirst have the text and its syntax, and then theology. However, I didstart wih the former and then saw it produced the latter. You see, I'mnot much of a theologian at all ;)>RegardsHerman>
HH: Another difficulty with your view is that it gives an imperfect meaning to the perfect verb
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