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Extraposition is a frequently used stylistic device for beginning a prose or poetic sentence (more than one-thousand examples in the Hebrew Bible): one part of a sentence, the so-called ‘pendens’, is removed from its normal contextual position and transferred to the beginning of the sentence; the remainder of the sentence is then called the ‘pendens clause’. Often, though not always, a pronominal or deictic substitute, a so-called ‘resumption’, is inserted into the place where the extraposed ele…

[German Version] I. Bible – II. Dogmatics I. Bible 1. Hebrew Bible Older interpretations (most recently: Copan) of Gen 1:1, 2, that God created the tohuwabohu, etc. from nothing (Creation; Chaos: II) in order subsequently to shape it in the six days of creation have been abandoned. However one assesses the syntax of Gen 1:1–3, the consensus maintains: the framework of Gen 1:1+2:4a speaks of the creation of the ordered world of life, but Gen 1:2 mentions (de-mythologizing Me…