From: gordon brown (gbrown@euclid.colorado.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 15 2003 - 15:18:59 EDT
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, allenroy wrote:
> It has been understood forever that the word Yom can have more than one meaning. However, the use of the word Yom in Genesis 1 in connection with the ordinals and especially associated with the phrase "evening and morning" can only have one meaning and that is a single rotation of the planet day. In 2:4 and 1:5 the word Yom is not used with an ordinal nor with the evening/morning phrase, so one could expect that the word would NOT mean a single rotation of the planet.
In Hosea 6:2 yom is used with an ordinal to mean an indefinite period of
time.
Can you show me one passage in the OT where any word for an indefinite
time period besides yom is used with an ordinal?
In Gen. 1:5 yom is used with a cardinal (in the Hebrew).
> Please note, 1) he name only the animals that God brought to him, not necessarily every animal that had been made. And 2), the list only includes "the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field." This does not include the "the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems," "creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals" (NIV) I'm not sure how many but we are talking hundreds rather than thousands.
A somewhat technical correction here since it doesn't make a major
difference in the argument: Genesis does not say that God brought the
livestock to Adam even though he named them.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
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