1) "In the beginning" appears as a single word in the Hebrew of Gen.1:1.
Its English equivalent would be the adverb "Initially">>
My question however is, is the word an adverb in Hebrew or an inflected noun similar to "In the beginning" ?
Vernon:
2) Re the history of alphabetic numeration, the current consensus among
scholars is as I suggested, viz c600BC for the Greek, and c200BC for the
Hebrew.>>
It is interesting to see that this consensus has ranges from 600-1000BCE for Greek and similar ranges for Hebrew. Are you sure you are not overselling this issue here ?
Vernon:
3) Your suggestion that a clever man (or men) could have devised a
meaningful Hebrew sentence and, at the same time, fulfilled the
numerical requirements betrays the fact that you have yet to understand
the uniqueness and complexity of the geometrical relationships present
(which actually extend into the next verse), the symbolism, and the link
with the Creator's Name and Title which were to appear centuries after
the event.>>
But sadly enough no such 'uniqueness' has been shown. You have shown that the numbers you found exhibit some interesting behavior. But this was all 'after the fact'. Now if you had predicted the geometry, you might have had a point about the uniqueness. Complexity ? Now that is another interesting assertion. Are you saying that people could not have come up with such interesting numerics if they wanted to ? After all numerology was a very important part of the culture in those days.So you have failed to 1) show the uniqueness 2) complexity and 3) the symbolism. All we have seen is someone finding some interesting interpretations that could have changed depending on the outcome.
So a combination of a failure to show that the combination is indeed unique, complex combined with a subjective a-posteriori interpretation, reduce the exercise to an interesting but imho meaningless one.
Vernon: These facts all add up to a genuine mystery. It is one that can't be dodged, I'm afraid.>>
For this to be the case you first have to show that this is indeed a mystery. I am afraid that you have some work cut out for you here.