Is Genesis 1:1 A Mistranslation?

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Why do we clap?
1:56 Is Genesis 1:1 an explosion?
12:38 What began in Genesis 1?
18:27 What is the tone of Genesis 1?
23:42 Is God a mereological nihilist?
36:33 What does the English translation omit?
45:17 An interlude on etymology
53:19 The gendered language of Genesis
58:58 Why translations of the Hebrew Bible can be misleading
1:06:00 Capitalisation of “God”
1:09:38 Was Eve created from Adam’s rib?
1:17:23 Philosophy’s influence on translation
1:21:50 What other languages reveal about English
1:26:58 What are “the heavens and the earth”?
1:30:09 Closing thoughts

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