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What a "deep" insight! The parts of this verse almost seem like precursors to the parallelism seen in some Biblical poetry. There's the sort of static darkness over the [sur]face of Deep and a God-wind dynamically over the [sur]face of the waters.

And, there's the issue that bothered Kabbalists: how was there room for all this?

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Genesis 1 in its own way is very much a prose poem.

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