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Article: Many voices, one voice.(creation story in Genesis)
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- September 22, 1998
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The majestic sweep of the creation story told in Genesis 1:1-2:3 strikes me every time I read it. The power is overwhelming, the simplicity is awe-inspiring, and the orderliness is deeply impressive. There is something beyond-time about this creation narrative. I have read it ritually on Simhat Torah and been moved to tears by its transcendent power.(1)
And yet, the creation narrative is a very complicated text. It is actually more complicated than the text of evolution which is, itself, not simple. So many problems and questions arise: What is the meaning of the grammatical irregularity in the first sentence? Are the waters not created? What exactly happened on ...