GEORGE wrote: Ishinan, I think you've slightly misunderstood Jerry's post.
He is arguing that Gen 1 specifically envisions a situation of
chaos/disorder/vacuum (תהו ובהו) from which God creates an orderly universe.
This is not to deny that there are other texts in the Hebrew Bible that see
a creatio ex nihilo, but Gen 1 may not be one of those texts.