stories in Genesis also critique and challenge the religious ideas and claims of the creation stories of their neighbors. Genesis 1:1–2:3 is the great summary of creation, and it takes special care to establish that the natural phenomena worshipped by Israel’s neighbors as the pantheon of the great gods are, in fact, not gods themselves, but God’s creations. Genesis 2:4–25 relates God’s intimate care in the making of the first humans. Much of modern scholarship views 1:1–2:3 (or, 2:4a) and 2:4b–25