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Originally Posted by cih1355  The days of creation in Genesis are qualified by the expression, "...there was evening and morning...". Hence, those days are literal, 24-hour days. |
You are correct that we ought understand
yom to refer to a 24-hour day. There is no linguistic reason not to. However, that does not mean that these days actually ever took place. As I noted earlier, Gen. 1 is an ancient Near Eastern cosmogony that is presented in a prose that characterises historical writings, like unto to other ANE cosmologies. That is, it is a cosmogony presented in an historical form.