chbrooking
Puritan Board Junior
Scholar might be pushing it, but it's Plural. I can see why you'd think it was dual.
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On bereshith:
Well, I can tell you what I do know about it. It's a prepositional phrase in construct to a VERB. That's highly unusual. It does occur. Interestingly, it only occurs in poetry. (That's not to say Genesis 1 is poetry. It's definitely prose. That's not to say it's not highly stylized, though.) I understand this construction happens rather frequently in Akkadian, but I take that on the authority of a very reliable source. I never learned Akkadian. I've thought about trying to teach myself, but I'm not sure the payoff would be high enough for me.
Since you're a Hebrew scholar, Clark, maybe you can tell me, as a matter of interest, whether "Heaven" in Genesis 1:1 is singular, dual or plural?
---------- Post added at 03:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:37 PM ----------
On bereshith:
Well, I can tell you what I do know about it. It's a prepositional phrase in construct to a VERB. That's highly unusual. It does occur. Interestingly, it only occurs in poetry. (That's not to say Genesis 1 is poetry. It's definitely prose. That's not to say it's not highly stylized, though.) I understand this construction happens rather frequently in Akkadian, but I take that on the authority of a very reliable source. I never learned Akkadian. I've thought about trying to teach myself, but I'm not sure the payoff would be high enough for me.