On 15/04/2006 01:07, Harold R. Holmyard III wrote:
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HH: The real question with the traditional reading ("In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth") is the absence of a definite article with "in" followed by "beginning": BR)$YT. ...
It is also worth noting that this definite article would be marked only in the subtleties of vowel pointing, with qamets for the definite version rather than sheva as found in the Masoretic text. But then the LXX rendering EN ARCHi without the definite article points to an early undertanding of R)$YT as indefinite, but not a construct as "created" (actually rendered as just EPOIHSEN, "made") is a main verb, not subordinate to EN ARCHi.
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