Re: [asa] The Hebrew for the Making of Man

Phil wrote:
Moses was clearly using ANE ideas, but
> his intentional choice to avoid the Hebrew words for "sun" and "moon"
> imply some sophistication that exceeded the origins of ANE mythology from
> several millenia earlier.
>
I now point out that a much simpler explanation is that the writer of
Genesis was merely avoiding the usual words for Sun and Moon because the
Sun and Moon were associated with divinities in the countries neighbouring
Israel.
Don

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Received on Fri Feb 1 04:14:45 2008