Interjecting for a moment: I would add that several people have also brought
up the issue of cultural beliefs and practices of the time. Many, if not
all, of the cultures of ancient times saw the dawn as the ascension of their
God and dusk as the descent(even death) of their God. Each day would bring
in a rebirth of life and a return of that God. These beliefs are reflected
in many cultures and languages of today. "The dawn of a new era". This
culture understanding of ancient times would therefore support the idea, not
just in translation, of a set of periods of creation and not necessarily
actual days.
Don P
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Hi Troy. Maybe this gives a fuller picture to your earlier
post.
>The clincher for me in the "what is a day?" discussion is "and the evening
>and the morning were the nth day."
Newman & Eckelmann, in Genesis One and the Origins of the Earth
1977, 6th printing) give us an answer. They say that each day
represents the beginning of God's creative period.
So, if we like, we can take it as a literal day.
Peter Ruest follows up in a previous post to the ASA listserve on
Sun Feb 24 2002 - 13:29:34 EST
"Evening" [^erev] could be translated: going or entering into
(something), going down (setting of the sun), or a transition (mixing
between the previous state and the following one). "Morning" [boqer] can
quite generally mean a dawning (e.g. of a new day or age)".
Jim
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