I have been doing your course from the great courses. It has truly helped to open a new dimension of bible reading for me at 75 years old. I am also a physics aficionado. I believe that the bible is conveying truth and I have tried to reconcile with physical science pipe dreams of reality. Your reading of the Hebrew of genesis has blown my mind. Before "at first " there was no beginning. I think that is significant. Tohu bohu - maximum entropy. We know that there can be no sequence after maximum entropy that's it. I like to think of aretz as matter and mayim as space. Also tahom as spacetime. G-d injected information and allowed light in that the undifferentiated matter condensed into particles bosons and fermions and quantum mechanics was born. Light as the transition of energy levels existed for the first time. So G-d moved the entropy of the universe backward truly a miracle of the greatest proportions. Maybe I push the text too far.
I have been doing your course from the great courses. It has truly helped to open a new dimension of bible reading for me at 75 years old. I am also a physics aficionado. I believe that the bible is conveying truth and I have tried to reconcile with physical science pipe dreams of reality. Your reading of the Hebrew of genesis has blown my mind. Before "at first " there was no beginning. I think that is significant. Tohu bohu - maximum entropy. We know that there can be no sequence after maximum entropy that's it. I like to think of aretz as matter and mayim as space. Also tahom as spacetime. G-d injected information and allowed light in that the undifferentiated matter condensed into particles bosons and fermions and quantum mechanics was born. Light as the transition of energy levels existed for the first time. So G-d moved the entropy of the universe backward truly a miracle of the greatest proportions. Maybe I push the text too far.