The Earth and the Waters in Genesis 1 and 2

Download or read book The Earth and the Waters in Genesis 1 and 2 written by David Toshio Tsumura and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1989-08-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enormous amounts of interpretive efforts have gone into the first book of the Hebrew Bible. In modern critical studies of Genesis, for instance, it is often suggested that the nature of the "earth-waters" relationship in Chapter 1 is totally different from that in Chapter 2. Professor Tsumura here offers a linguistic analysis of some key terms related to the initial situation of the earth in its relationship with the waters in Gen 1:2 and Gen 2:5ff that helps to clarify some of the hermeneutic issues at stake.