Editing Creator deity (section)

====Judaism====
The [[Genesis creation narrative]] is the [[creation myth]]{{efn|{{Myth FAQ}}}} of both [[Judaism]] and [[Christianity]].{{sfn|Leeming|Leeming|2004|p=113}} The [[narrative]] is made up of two stories, roughly equivalent to the first two chapters of the [[Book of Genesis]]. In the first, [[Elohim]] (the Hebrew generic word for [[God]]) creates the heavens and the Earth, the animals, and [[Adam and Eve|mankind]] in six days, then rests on, blesses and sanctifies the seventh (i.e. the [[Biblical Sabbath]]). In the second story, God, now referred to by the personal name [[Yahweh]], creates [[Adam]], the first man, from dust and places him in the [[Garden of Eden]], where he is given dominion over the animals. [[Eve]], the first woman, is created from Adam and as his companion.

It expounds themes parallel to those in [[Mesopotamian mythology]], emphasizing the [[Israelites|Israelite]] people's [[monotheism|belief in one God]].{{sfn|Sarna|1997|p=50}} The first major comprehensive draft of the [[Pentateuch]] (the series of five books which begins with Genesis and ends with [[Deuteronomy]]) was composed in the late 7th or the 6th century BCE (the [[Jahwist]] source) and was later expanded by other authors (the [[Priestly source]]) into a work very similar to Genesis as known today.{{sfn|Davies|2007|p=37}} The two sources can be identified in the creation narrative: Priestly and Jahwistic.{{sfn|Bandstra|2008|p=37}} The combined narrative is a critique of the [[Ancient Mesopotamian religion|Mesopotamian theology]] of creation: Genesis affirms [[monotheism]] and denies [[polytheism]].{{sfn|Wenham|2003b|p=37}} [[Robert Alter]] described the combined narrative as "compelling in its archetypal character, its adaptation of myth to monotheistic ends".{{sfn|Alter|2004|p=xii}}