In the spring of 2022, I interviewed the venerable professor of Hebrew exegesis, Jacques Doukhan, for the second time. Ten years before, in our first interview, we discussed his life: his beginnings in a Jewish family in Constantine, Algeria, his studies in France, Switzerland and the United States, his work as a teacher and author. This time we talked about the study that has fascinated him all his life: the first book of the Bible, Genesis, and especially its first chapters on creation.
Let’s read Genesis with “new eyes”
