Two Accounts of Creation: Bereshit 1–2/2/en
Two Accounts of Creation
Exegetical Approaches
Literary Device
The repetition of the creation story with its varying details is a literary device in which an author first presents a general overview and then proceeds to speak in more detail about important individual components.
Two Facets of Creation
The two chapters describe different aspects of the same creation. Chapter One focuses on man in his creative capacity and his search for control over his environment while Chapter Two describes the submissive man of faith and his search for redemption. As each prototype approaches his surroundings differently, the description of the creation of each and his world differs, but in reality both are fundamentally part of all creation.
Distinct Events
While Chapter One describes the creation of the world at large and the human species as a whole, Chapter Two speaks of the creation of Gan Eden and a particular individual, Adam.
