"If you read Genesis 1, it actually fits right into the Babylonian epic," he says. "It just feels like an order of things and a structure of what God's doing ... which you don't see the intentionality." The Jewish Bible is filled with these deep tensions that those in the West want to break all the time, Nussbaum says.

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