As the annual cycle of public Torah readings commences this week with sefer bereshis (Genesis), an incredibly insightful and unique new book is Genesis: From Creation To Covenant (Maggid Books 978 ...

That wasn’t going to “work” if Genesis continued to be interpreted as plain historical narrative, with creation in six days and a worldwide flood. A workaround of Genesis was needed.

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, appearances aside ...

The artist who gave the comic-book world Mr. Natural, Angelfood McSpade and Fritz the Cat has a new cast of characters: Adam, Eve, Noah, Abraham and, well, You Know Who. R. Crumb, the Albrecht ...

Robinson derives this lesson from Genesis 2:9, finding it in the second story of Creation. God, designing Eden, puts in trees. The first thing the verse tells us is that they’re “pleasant to ...

The topic arises ordinarily and early in the book of Genesis. Both creation accounts end with sexualized humans. In Genesis 1, we read, “In the image of God he created them, male and female he ...

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 ...

Much of his book starts in 1948, after creation, with our father Abraham, ... the Book of Genesis represents a revolution in thought and ethics against ANE amoral polytheism.