In this case, the required millions or billions of years are inserted into each of the six days of Genesis 1, where the ...

Genesis 11 is the story of how humans soon after ... In its original form, the story is an explanation of why not everyone speaks Hebrew, as well as a comment on the huge temple-towers (ziggurats ...

The texts in Genesis simply have Abraham talking to God ... Cohen: One of the main ideas of the Hebrew Scriptures is that the people of Israel relate to God through a covenant.

Alan Mintz's general introduction explains the genesis and development of modern Hebrew literature, its reception in U.S. universities and the rationale for selecting this particular group of texts.