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Confronting Creation: How Judaism Reads Genesis: An Anthology of Genesis Rabbah is unavailable, but you can change that!

By setting forth the book of Genesis as it is represented in the rabbinic statement Genesis Rabbah, renowned scholar Jacob Neusner demonstrates how Judaism confronted creation and the Genesis story. This event was crucial in the life of Israel and the Jewish people because it helped shape the entire history of Western civilization—the rise of Christianity to the status of the official religion of...

in the Torah we uncover the workings of God’s will. Our task as Israel is to accept, endure, submit, and celebrate.” Now that message must strike you as surprising. For the world reads the book of Genesis as the story of the beginnings of the world and of Israel: creation of the world, humanity from Adam to Noah, then from Noah to Abraham, and finally the story of the three patriarchs and four matriarchs of Israel, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Leah, and Rachel, and finally, Joseph and his
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