Thursday, July 11, 2024

Bible: Genesis 1 NOT about world creation


Lost in Translation: The Bible's Genesis 1 is NOT about the creation of the universe
(James Tabor) May 23, 2024: Lost in Translation Series. The very first verse of the Jewish-Christian Bible (Genesis 1:1), which millions can quote from heart, is mistranslated in almost all major versions and all languages with very few exceptions.

The reasons are simple, marketing and commercialism. Who would buy a Bible translation that does not begin with "In the Beginning, God created the heavens and the earth"?

This short exposition shows how the original Hebrew [though according to classicist Dr. David Ammon Hillman, the original was in Ancient Greek and the Hebrew was translated down from that by idiomatic radiation, not the other way around] has a completely different meaning.

It is not a philosophical or scientific statement -- but rather a description of the ordering of the chaotic, empty, water covered, wind swept wasteland that was planet earth when the "Force of All Forces" (Elohim, always plural, always "gods," never a God) began to bring order out of the random chaos.

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