Biblical exegetes from Antiquity and the Middle Ages continuously confronted the cosmogonic narrative offered in Genesis with the scientific cosmological theories of their times. Besides addressing theological questions raised by the text, most exegetes of the past were occupied with harmonizing the biblical cosmogony with current scientific knowledge or dealing with their manifest discrepancies. Reviewed by: David Lemler, Published Online (2021-04-30)Copyright © 2021 by David Lemler Article PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/aestimatio/article/view/37667/28671 Corresponding Author: David Lemler, Sorbonne UniversitéE-Mail: david.lemler@sorbonne-universite.fr

Original publication: Lemler, David. "Science et exégèse. Les interprétations antiques et médiévales du récit biblique de la création des éléments (Genèse 1, 1–8) edited by Béatrice Bakhouche." Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science 1: 2021. 243–247. DOI: 10.33137/aestimatio.v1i1.37667. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science. Copyright © the author(s). Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.