The Earth and the Waters in Genesis 1 and 2. A Linguistic by David T. Tsumura
By David T. Tsumura
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This is found especially in Gen 1. . "37 However, is there any reason to think that a term used as a common noun is a depersonification of a divine name when both can go back to their original common noun? In our case, what is the etymology of the Hebrew term tahom! Is there any direct connection between etymological and mythological similarity? C. ETYMOLOGY OF *THM Morphologically the Hebrew tdhom corresponds to the Ugaritic thm rather than to the Akkadian divine name dTiamat with a feminine ending /-at/.
For example, Bright says that "the story of Genesis 1 has been reversed: men, beasts, and growing things are gone, the dry land itself totters, the heavens cease to give their light, and primeval chaos returns. '"89 McKane also expresses a similar Gordis, The Book of Job (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1978), 141. " 89 J. Bright, Jeremiah (AB 21; New York: Doubleday, 1965), 33. 2. The Earth in Gen I 37 view in his recent commentary. "90 He even says that "According to v. "91 However, this view is greatly influenced by the interpretation of the phrase tohu wabohu as "chaos" in Gen 1:2 and is not based on the contextual analysis of Jer 4:23ff.
110 However, as Wildberger rightly says "Aber wie die Stelle aus dem Jeremiabuch zeigt, braucht die Schopfungs1404 Bright, Jeremiah, 33. Bright adds the following comment: "the land will indeed be a waste, but it will not be the 'full end' described in vss. " 105 Cf. "complete destruction" (BOB, 478). 106 For this verse, see my article "Janus Parallelism in Nah 1:8," JBL 102 (1983), 109111. 107 AH III v 42-44, cf. II viii 34 & III iii 38. Cf. Lambert & Millard, AH, 158 [a note on II viii 34]. 108 Carroll thinks that "the poem could be a meditation on the creation story .