The Six Days of Creation - Volume 2

How does the Torah’s record of Creation correspond with archeological discoveries?

The Torah’s account of Creation stipulates that plant life was created on the Third Day, marine life on the Fifth Day, and land animals and man on the Sixth Day. However, an abundance of archaeological material, along with sophisticated dating techniques, appears to trace the development of life over the course of millions of years—from simple marine life to plant life to the intricately complex animals and humans.

In volume 1, the early expansion of the universe—indicated in the Talmud and scientifically established—is shown to have possibly resulted in the dramatic slowdown of the daily cycle of the sun on the Fifth Day of Creation—reconciling the scientific age of the universe with that of the Torah.

In volume 2, this same dramatic slowdown is shown to harmonize the Torah’s record of Creation with the entire spectrum of archaeological discoveries.

“An original and ingenious explanation based on the words of Chazal.”

Rabbi Aharon Feldman

“Opens the door for full elimination of apparent contradictions between Torah and science.”

Professor Doron Aurbach

About the author:

Rabbi Alexander Hool grew up under the tutelage of his father, Rabbi Maurice Hool of Kingsbury, London, UK. He learned in Gateshead Yeshivah for many years under the direction of the Rosh Yeshivah, Rav Avrohom Gurwitz, and then moved to Israel where he has been studying in the Ponevezh Yeshivah and Kollel for over twenty years.

An eminent scholar, he has developed a particular expertise in history, dating, mathematics, and other unique and intriguing subjects. He is the author of the acclaimed work Toras Yom VoLaylah (on the complex halachic definitions of day, twilight, and night, and their ramifications) and has published a fundamental study on ancient astronomy and its implications regarding the halachic dateline, as well as an analysis of the Murex trunculus as a possible source of the ancient blue dye, techeles. Other recent publications include Shiur HaShiurim (a comprehensive investigation of the classification and calibration of measures and distances used in the Middle East before the Common Era), The Challenge of Jewish History (Mosaica Press, 2015), Searching for Sinai (Mosaica Press, 2018), Pharaoh (Mosaica Press, 2020), The Desert Encampments (Mosaica Press, 2021), and The Six Days of Creation, vol. 1 (Mosaica Press, 2022).

By: Alexander Hool