I just read today of a new proposal for the first phrase of Genesis 1:1 by
Rob Holmstedt, to be presented at the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies
next month. http://www.ccsr.ca/csbs/2006_programme_abstracts.pdf
> >I don't think we should go over the entire discussion, but I'll just
> >give here a translation that represents the syntactic viewpoint of
> >Rashi, Ibn Ezra, the Stone Chumash, quite a few scholars I know in
> >Leiden, Alter's translation, etc.
> >
> >"In the beginning of God's creating the heavens and the earth - when
> >the earth was astonishingly empty, with darkness upon the surface of
> >the deep, and the Divine Presence hovered upon the surface of the
> >waters - God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 1:1 R)$YT,
Ken Penner, 04/13/2006