Plurality or Power: The Meaning of “Let Us Create” in Genesis 1
It is widely known that one of the most important tenets of Jewish faith is the oneness of God. For millennia, faithful descendants of Abraham have affirmed their strict monotheism by starting each day by reciting the Shema (“Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one!”; Deu 6:4). Given the centrality…