Genesis, chapters one and two, present two accounts of creation. Many critics of the Bible (often, atheists) assume that they are contradictory.

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 ...

Genesis 1:24-2:3 Last week, we left off with Days 6 and 7 of creation. Those two days are unique from the rest of the creative events cataloged in Genesis 1 and so deserve special consideration.

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 ...

Coupled with the language of "In the beginning," humankind's creation is an undeniably radical innovation in what we might term the genre of creation myths. As Bill Arnold points out in his commentary ...

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 ...

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.

Walton spoke recently with CT assistant editor Kevin P. Emmert about his newest book, The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2–3 and the Human Origins Debate (IVP Academic).

The rationale of the brief biblical creation narrative we read in Genesis may be to teach us that its goal reached -- on its ...