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the title of my paper: "Interpretations of the creation of the world and the first human event"

I just put the introduction paragraph. could you please correct the sentence structures and grammatical mistakes and give some comments?

Outline:

1. Introduction

i) difficulties of interpreting bible

ii) Genesis 1-3 as a "problem text"

iii) The ways in which Midrashic commentators respond to the text's problem.

Introduction:

We can notice the difficulties of interpreting bible when we read it. In the bible, there are so many different periodic backgrounds, authors, and the different interpretations of the events. The bible starts with the book called Genesis. It represents the beginning of the bible. When we look through Gen. 1-3, there are descriptions of the creation of the earth and its inhabitants. There are several reasons why we called Gen. 1-3 as a “problem text”. There are some inconsistencies between Priestly source(Gen. 1:1-2:4a) and Jahwist source(Gen. 2:4b-3) and unanswered questions. According to Gen.1:6, “And God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it separate the waters from the waters”, however, according to Gen. 2:5-6, “when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up-for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.” Thus, God separated the earth from the waters in Gen. 1:6 and God had not caused rain upon the earth in Gen.2:5-6. Also, there are some unanswered questions in Genesis 1-3 such as the reason why God created the woman from a rib. Otherwise, there is a sort of methodology of interpreting bible called, “Midrash”. According to Eve & Adam, “Midrash is a form of biblical interpretation that often begins from a question, silence, gap, or contradiction in a biblical story and writes the story forward in response to the interpreter’s questions.” (p.429). Material of Midrash is orthopraxis rather than orthodoxy. According to Eve and Adam, “Judasim, unlike Christianity, has no continuous history of systematic theological discourse. A tradition in which deed is more central than creed, it deals with theological issues not through the elaboration of doctrine [an orthodoxy] but through engagement with biblical narratives [ a hermeneutical orthopraxis].” The rest of questions are how genesis 1-3 challenges the reader, how midrash works as an interpretive method, different interpretations of the story of the creation of Eve.