Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 1/0
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Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 1
Two Creations – Bereshit 1 and 2
Primary Sources
- Mishnat R. Eliezer, Rashi, R. Yosef Bekhor Shor, Rashbam, Radak, U. Cassuto –
- Hoil Moshe – Hoil Moshe views Chapters 1 and 2 as describing two distinct events. Chapter 1 describes the earlier creation of the whole world and the entire human race, Chapter 2 speaks of a subsequent and wholly separate creation of the Garden of Eden and the individual Adam.
Articles
- See Bereshit 1–2 for an analysis of these two accounts of creation.
- See Bereishit: The Two Stories of Creation by Rav Menachem Leibtag for an exploration of the two accounts as reflective of two perspectives on the nature of human existence and the relationship between God and man
- Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's The Lonely Man of Faith contains an extensive discussion of the two accounts of the creation of man and woman.
- The Ideal and the Real by Rabbi Zvi Grumet suggests that the first two chapters of Sefer Bereshit describe the ideal world that God created, followed by an account of the world as it actually existed through the partnership of God and man.
