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Genesis 1 wants to examine the “big picture,” the creation of all that is, including man. A reader is immediately struck by its structure: there are a series of days on which particular works ...

And second Creation has a very different view about men and women than first Creation. In Chapter 1, after God has made everything else, He makes man and woman together, “in His image.” ...

The point of this all-too-familiar recitation is to note that in Bereisheet/Genesis only our planet is teeming with life; our planet, alone, with all the stars of the universe centered about it.

At the end of the first chapter of Genesis we read: “Fill the earth and conquer it,” (1:28), while in the next chapter we are told to “cultivate and guard” the earth (2:15).

A Houston woman thought she had dementia. Then a doctor saw something new in a scan of her brain.

Genesis was meant to be read as literal history, creation out of nothing in six 24-hour days. From the extensive genealogies in Genesis 5, Genesis 11, 1 Chronicles 1-8 and Luke 3:23-38, we can ...