Last week, we broached the doctrine of creation by emphasizing the distinctive teaching of Judaism and Christianity: everything that exists comes from the hand of God. While the question of how God ...

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Q: Dear Rabbi Gellman, several weeks ago, you had a column in our Patriot News in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Lilith. I accidentally threw out the paper without cutting that article out. Several ...

In her 2009 monograph on cognitive linguistics for Biblical Studies Ellen Van Wolde argues that the verb אדב means "to separate" rather than the traditional understanding "to create." This ...

Genesis 5 is once again very organized and quite easy to draw an outline of, just like Genesis 1; Genesis 6, which is ...

Renewal is integral to our human experience. We are dynamic creatures, just like the world around us,” writes.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God ...

We can humbly seek their wisdom without treating them as mascots for one position or another. Through that process, I became personally (and painfully) aware of how heated Genesis 1 controversies ...

1) The following verses from the bible only touch upon genesis and the creation of the world/universe. A closer examination of the details leaves much to be desired from a more vigorous point of view.