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A DAM , C REATION OF Throughout history many explanations have been given about the creation of the human species. The monotheistic Abrahamic traditions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—believe in the Creation story of Adam. This account is found in the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Torah, which comprises the first five books of the Hebrew Bible (for Christians, the Old Testament). The word genesis in Latin means birth, creation, or beginning. According to the first man, out of dust from the ground. He was given dominion over all things on earth, both great and small. God then decided that Adam should not be alone, and from his side created Eve, the first woman. God told them to be fruitful and multiply, and all of humankind descends from their union. All of the Abrahamic faiths are proponents of creation ex nihilo (out of nothing). This is the belief that nothing in the universe but God and the heavens existed before the Creation. However, each faith emphasizes different aspects of the story. There are two versions of the Creation story offered in Genesis. This dichotomy seems to stem from the fact that the Books of the Torah are compiled from various ancient stories and not written by one author. The first chapter is known as the “P” or Priestly version and was written in about 715–687 BCE. The second chapter is the “J” or JHWH The first chapter is known as the “P” or Priestly version and was written in about 715–687 BCE. The second chapter is the “J” or JHWH version, from the Hebrew word for God,written between 922 and 722 BCE. This explains why Genesis 1 and 2 offer two similar but slightly different accounts of the same event and why the language used does not always match up. This detail of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City shows The Creation of Adam, a panel in the massive narrative work by Italian artist Michelangelo Buonarroti, completed between 1508 and 1512 . “And Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being” (Gen 2:7, Revised Standard Version). In the P version it is written, “Then God said, Let us make man in our image. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Gen 1:26–27). The language of this passage has caused debate among scholars and theologians. First, the use of the plural tense when describing the creation implies that more than one man was made. Second, it says “male and female,” implying that men and women were made at the same time. Some believe that man was made to be, like God, a hermaphrodite (God having no gender). Then God decided it was not good for this human to be alone and thusversion,https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=9551CgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&source=gbs_atb_hover&pg=GBS.PA2.w.5.2.30Images.https