Our survey of classical Jewish philosophy and theology suggested that of all of the schematic alternatives available to the rabbis, the Platonic schema most easily fits the Genesis account of creation. That judgment left open the question whether or not the rabbis had a correct understanding of both texts that served as the foundation (at least with respect to the history of ideas) of the Jewish dogma of creation. Now we will look at these core texts themselves. Our concern in this third part of the book is to determine whether or not Plato's Timaeus and the Genesis account of creation together constitute a coherent picture of the origin and general nature of the universe. First we will look at Genesis and then we will turn to Plato's dialogue on cosmology and cosmogony.