For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. Genesis 1 richly repays reflection. Consider it not just a creation account, but an accounting of the community of creation, of the ...

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 ...

This meant that from the very creation of the world, some people were destined to rule over others. Genesis 1 will have none of this. It is not the king who is the image of God but each and every ...

Genesis 2 provides some of those, but in a way that is completely consistent, logically, with Genesis 1:27. Adam being created from the dust of the ground (2:7) is logically consistent with his ...

Genesis in the Bible. Some Christians regard Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 as two totally separate myths that have a similar meaning. Others see the two chapters as part of one continuous story.

Ellen van Wolde, Separation and Creation in Genesis 1 and Psalm 104, A Continuation of the Discussion of the Verb ברא, Vetus Testamentum, Vol. 67, Fasc. 4 (2017), pp. 611-647 ...

In Genesis 2, some people think that the story goes on to give more detail about the creation of humans, seen as two individuals, Adam and Eve. Many Christians do not believe this story to be true ...