Abstract
[...]the earth was/became formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.1 The-earth and the-heavens *** God he-created in-beginning surface-of over and-darkness and-empty formless she-was now-the-earth and-he-said the-waters surface-of over hovering God and-spirit-of deep.2 (inversion of the literal right to left from the translation of Hebrew) Deep of-spirit-and God hovering over of-surface waters-the said-he-and earth-the-now was-she formless empty-and darkness-and over of-surface beginning-in created-he God *** heavens-the and earth-the.3 (literal right to left but presented left to right from original Hebrew in translation) Derrida's "Ousia and Gramme: Note on a Note from Being and Time" from his powerful Margins of Philosophy seems to indicate a critique of Heidegger's critique of the linear notion of time born from the metaphysics of Aristotle. Rather, to what extent does the mystery of "Ousia and Gramme" draws its inspiration from the theology of Genesis 1:1-2 regarding the origin of time, and the mysterious arche that lies prior to the distinction of time and eternity? "Ousia and Gramme" may generate a startling difference regarding the problem of time and origin as encrusted in the history of the metaphysics of presence-something Heidegger intended to destroy in trying to open another sense of Being.