Re: Off-topic Question: Gen.1:2

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 06 1999 - 08:19:48 EST


<x-rich>At 6:58 AM -0500 1/6/99, Theodore H. Mann wrote:

>Greetings:

>

>I would appreciate an off-list answer to the following:

>Can it be grammatical justified to translate Gen.1:2 as: "The earth

>BECAME formless and void...."?

As a question regarding the LXX text of Genesis:

<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param><bigger>Gen. 1:2 hH DE GH HN AORATOS
KAI AKATASKEUASTOS.

</bigger></fontfamily>and only as such is this question appropriate to
B-Greek, but the answer must be NO: because the verb is HN, an
imperfect which must indicate durative being.

Interesting that the Heb rew Y'Hi MIGHT have been translated EGENETO,
but wasn't.

Carl W. Conrad

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