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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...

we find in the Torah? Our sages do not refer to the physics of creation, or the chemistry of the making of woman and man. They refer to the purpose of creation, later on finding the principle of humanity as representing God’s likeness, in God’s image. Those convictions about the holiness of creation and ultimate human value demand credence. And they form the message and define the meaning of scripture’s account of the creation of the world. What
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