Like America, Genesis has 2 creation stories. Simchat Torah renews our ability to tell them both As Jews we learn to live with the contradictions that sometimes haunt us.

Genesis 2 places the creation of man front and center. As we said last week, you need to know the literary genre of what you are reading. The first thing you should know is that, ...

Genesis 1 is a detailed, orderly, virtually scientific synopsis of creation, while Genesis 2 is primarily focused on the human element; the creation of man, of woman, original sin and exile.

This was a recent topic for discussion in a biblical philosophy course I am taking, and I'd like to hear what the Soapbox has to say about it. Genesis 2:7 in the Oxford Study Bible states, "The ...

One of the lesser-known facts about Genesis 1-2:4a, the story of the seven days of creation, is that it was written in response to a disaster.Judah, the southern kingdom of the Israelite people ...

In Genesis 1 and 2 of the Bible there are two different versions of the story. Chapter 1 seems to say that God created humans, both male and female, at the same time. This seems to me to put the ...

This week Jews around the world will return to our creation story, the one found in the first chapters of the Torah that are read on Simhat Torah (beginning Tuesday evening, Sept. 28) and again on ...