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From Creation to Babel: Studies in Genesis 1–11 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The stories of Genesis 1-11 constitute one of the better known parts of the Old Testament, but their precise meaning and background still provide many debated questions for the modern interpreter. In this stimulating, learned, and readable collection of essays, which paves the way for his forthcoming ICC volume on these chapters, John Day attempts to provide definitive solutions to some of these...

the objections that may be made are the following. First, all the ancient Versions render bārāʾ by ‘create’; if the verb really meant ‘separate’ it is remarkable that the meaning of this not infrequent verb was universally forgotten so soon. Secondly, in the Hebrew Bible the verb bārāʾ occurs parallel with the verbs ʿāśâ, ‘make’, and yāṣar, ‘form’ (cf. Isa. 45:7). We may also compare Isa. 65:17 and 66:22, the former of which speaks of God creating (bārāʾ) new heavens and earth, and the
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