Traditional Jewish exegesis such as Midrash ( Genesis Rabbah 38 ) says that Adam spoke Hebrew because the names he gives Eve-" Isha " ( Book of Genesis 2: 23 ) and " Chava " ( Genesis 3: 20 )-only make sense in Hebrew.

It was in this period that the Pentateuch ( or Torah, to give the Hebrew name ) was composed, by detaching the book of Deuteronomy from the Deuteronomistic history and adding it to the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers.

As in English, the Hebrew word for " love ", ahavah אהבה, is used to describe intimate or romantic feelings or relationships, such as the love between parent and child in Genesis 22: 2 ; 25: 28 ; 37: 3 ; the love between close friends in I Samuel 18: 2, 20: 17 ; or the love between a young man and young woman in Song of Songs.

In Hebrew, the Dead Sea is, meaning " sea of salt " ( Genesis 14: 3 ).

40 ); whereas the traditional association of the Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil ( Book of Genesis 2: 9, 17 ; 3: 5 ) with the apple rests on the translation of the Hebrew Bible into Latin, where both ' apple ' and ' evil ' are rendered as ' malum '.

The Book of Genesis ( from the Latin Vulgate, in turn borrowed or transliterated from Greek γένεσις, meaning " origin ";, Bereʾšyt, " In beginning "), is the first book of the Hebrew Bible ( the Tanakh ) and the Christian Old Testament.

(" Faith " in the context of Genesis and the Hebrew bible means agreement to the promissory relationship, not a body of belief ).

* בראשית Bereishit – Genesis ( Hebrew – English at Mechon-Mamre. org )

* Hebrew Audiobook of Genesis from Librivox

The Garden of Eden ( Hebrew ג ַּ ן ע ֵ ד ֶ ן, Gan ʿEdhen ), is the biblical " garden of God ", described most notably in the Book of Genesis ( Genesis 2-3 ), but also mentioned, directly or indirectly, in Ezekiel, Isaiah and elsewhere in the Old Testament.

Notable among them are: ( 1 ) whether the word " eden " means a steppe or plain, or instead means " delight " or some similar term ; ( 2 ) whether the garden was in the east of Eden, or Eden itself was in the east, or whether " east " is not the correct word at all and the Hebrew means the garden was " of old "; ( 3 ) whether the river in Genesis 2: 10 " follows from " or " rises in " Eden, and the relationship, if any, of the four rivers to each other ; and ( 4 ) whether Cush, where one of the four rivers flows, means Ethiopia ( in Africa ) or Elam ( just east of Mesopotamia ).

Sayce and other scholars also mention that Judah and the Hittites were never enemies in the Hebrew texts ; in the Book of Kings, they supplied the Israelites with cedar, chariots, and horses, as well as being a friend and allied to Abraham in the Book of Genesis.

The Hebrew Bible refers to " Hittites " in several passages, ranging from Genesis to the post-Exilic Ezra-Nehemiah.

The stories of Isaac, like other patriarchal stories of Genesis, are generally believed in liberal Western scholarship to have " their origin in folk memories and oral traditions of the early Hebrew pastoralist experience.

* It is the first holiday mentioned in the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ), and God was the first one to observe it ( Genesis.

This response is an Aramaic translation of the Hebrew " ברוך שם כבוד מלכותו לעולם ועד " ( Blessed be His name, whose glorious kingdom is forever ), which is to be found in the Jerusalem Targum ( י ְ ה ֵ א ש ְׁ מ ֵ יה ּ ר ַ ב ָּ א מ ְ ב ָ ר ֵ ך ְ ל ְ ע ָ ל ְ מ ֵ י ע ַ ל ְ מ ִ ין ) ( Genesis 49: 2 and Deuteronomy 6: 4 ), and is similar to the wording of.

Ur is considered by many to be the city of Ur Kasdim mentioned in the Book of Genesis ( Biblical Hebrew ) as the birthplace of the Hebrew patriarch Abram ( Abraham ; Aramaic: Oraham, Arabic: Ibrahim ), traditionally believed to be sometime in the 2nd millennium BC.

Genesis Rabba contains many simple explanations of words and sentences, often in the Aramaic language, suitable for the instruction of youth.

Dr. Errico ’ s publications include: Aramaic Light on the Gospel of Matthew, Aramaic Light on the Gospels of Mark and Luke, Aramaic Light on the Gospel of John, And There Was Light, Setting a Trap for God ( formerly: The Ancient Aramaic Prayer of Jesus ), Let There Be Light: The Seven Keys, The Mysteries of Creation: The Genesis Story, The Message of Matthew, Classical Aramaic Book 1, La Antigua Oración Aramea de Jesús: El Padrenuestro ( Spanish version of The Ancient Aramaic Prayer of Jesus ).

According to another theory, the word Shapiro is Aramaic ( probably derived from the Hebrew word sapir ( ספיר ), usually translated as " sapphire ", which refers not to the sapphire gemstone but to the lapis lazuli, and is reputed to be the stone which represented the tribe of Issachar on the breastplate of the high priest of Israel and thus identifies the Shapiro family with that tribe ) and appears, for example, in the 11th Century Aramaic-language Jewish religious poem Akdamus a. k. a. Akdamuth ( line 45 ) and in Onkelos's commentary on Genesis 29: 17.

He wrote biblical commentaries on the Diatessaron ( the single gospel harmony of the early Syriac church ), on Genesis and Exodus, and on the Acts of the Apostles and Pauline Epistles.

The Gospel of Matthew begins with the words " The Book of Genealogy Greek, " Genesis " of Jesus Christ ", deliberately echoing the first words of the Old Testament in Greek.

Eastern Orthodox find the first instance of an image or icon in the Bible when God made man in His own image ( Septuagint Greek eikona ), in Genesis 1: 26-27.

In related stories, the creation idea is caused by a single entity emanating or producing something by him-or herself, as in the Tibetan Buddhism concept of Adi-Buddha, the ancient Greek story of Gaia ( Mother Earth ), the Aztec goddess Coatlicue myth, the ancient Egyptian god Atum story, or the Genesis creation narrative.

Note: the Greek Septuagint ( LXX ) of Genesis includes an additional son of Japheth, " Elisa ", in between Javan and Tubal ; however, as this name is found in no other ancient source, nor in I Chronicles, he is almost universally agreed to be a duplicate of Elisha, son of Javan.

He contrasts the account of the creation of the universe and of man, on which, together with the history contained in the earlier chapters of Genesis, he comments at great length but with singularly little intelligence, with the statements of Plato, " reputed the wisest of all the Greeks ", of Aratus, who had the insight to assert that the earth was spherical, and other Greek writers on whom he pours contempt as mere ignorant retailers of stolen goods.

The text is a fragment of the Book of Genesis in the Greek Septuagint translation.

* Codex Cottonianus – another illuminated Greek manuscript of the Book of Genesis

Phut or Put ( Hebrew: פוט ; Septuagint Greek Φουδ Phoud ) is the third son of Ham ( one of the sons of Noah ), in the biblical Table of Nations ( Genesis 10: 6 ; cf.

Madai (, ; Greek: Μηδος, ) is a son of Japheth and one of the 16 grandsons of Noah in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible.

Ham ( ; Greek Χαμ, Kham ; Arabic:, Ḥām, " hot " or " burnt "), according to the Table of Nations in the Book of Genesis, was a son of Noah and the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan.

Borrowing methods of textual criticism already in use to investigate Greek and Roman texts, he discovered what he believed were two distinct documents within Genesis.

Along with the expected examples from Homer and other figures of Greek culture, Longinus refers to a passage from Genesis, which is quite unusual for the 1st century:

The flood myth motif is widespread among many cultures as seen in the Mesopotamian flood stories, the Puranas, Deucalion in Greek mythology, the Genesis flood narrative, and even in the lore of the K ' iche ' and Maya peoples of Central America.

Longinus ' treatise is also notable for referencing not just Greek writers such as Homer but also biblical sources such as Genesis.

For example, the Medieval Latin translation of Genesis states literally that " God was moved over the waters " (" spiritus Dei ferebatur super aquas ", Genesis 1: 2 ), but it is just expressing a Greek middle-voice verb: " God moved over the waters ".

Magog ( Hebrew מגוג, Greek Μαγωγ ) is the second of the seven sons of Japheth mentioned in the Table of Nations in Genesis 10.

Three versions of the Genesis genealogy exist: the Hebrew Masoretic Text, the Greek Septuagint, and the Hebrew Samaritan Pentateuch.

But there are also two other versions of Genesis: the Samaritan ( from a Hebrew script ) and the Septuagint ( a Greek translation of a Hebrew text ).

The equivalent Old Testament cycles are more varied however, including the Greek Vienna Genesis and Cotton Genesis, the Latin Ashburnham Pentateuch, Quedlinburg Itala fragment and some others.

A number of translations into different languages follow the example of the Latin Vulgate and use mandrake as the plant as the proper meaning in both Genesis 30: 14-16 and Song of Solomon 7: 13.

* First Translation of Swedenborg's theological writings: 16th Chapter of Genesis as explained in the Arcana Cœlestia ( This translation from Latin into English was commissioned by Swedenborg himself and is a photocopy of a first edition copy: PDF-12MB ).

A full page table containing the Latin names of the books and Latin transliterations of the Hebrew names serves as a front piece to Genesis.

All four poems draw upon Latin sources such as homilies and hagiographies ( the lives of saints ) for their content, and this is to be particularly contrasted to other Old English poems, e. g. Genesis, Exodus, and Daniel, which are drawn directly from the Bible as opposed to secondary accounts.

The Latin phrase fiat lux, from the Latin Vulgate Bible, is typically translated as " let there be light " when relating to Genesis 1: 3 ( Hebrew: " י ְ ה ִ י או ֹ ר ").

The main source of the Genesis is the Bible, but Sievers has shown that considerable use was made of two Latin poems by Alcimus Avitus, De initio mundi and De peccato originali.

In his 4th century Latin translation of the story of Noah, St Jerome rendered " leaf of olive " ( Hebrew alay zayit ) in Genesis 8: 11 as " branch of olive " ( Latin ramum olivae ).

* All Hebrew and Latin texts ( songs 5, 7, 11 ) taken from the Book of Genesis ( Flood Story ).