The article compares the interpretations of two medieaval philosophers, i.e. Moses Maimonides and Meister Eckhart, on the first verse of the book of Genesis: “In the beginning God created heaven and earth”. An attempt is made to understand to what extent Maimonides’ point of view influenced Eckhart. Maimonides claiming a philosophical justification for the creation of the world ex nihilo actually justifies with the help of reason not the logical and philosophical consistency and persuasiveness of the concept of creation, but the philosophical certainty of the biblical story of creation. However, Meister Eckhart offers a variant of philosophical exegesis based to a much greater extent on logical argumentation. He is not afraid to recognise the numerical multiplicity of things in the universe which at the same time is one in its various parts since the Creator is one. The analysis shows that monotheism has a theoretical core common to Judaism and Christianity, but the variants of its understanding arising as a result of the hermeneutics of the text fundamentally separate the mediaeval philosophy of Judaism and Western Christian scholasticism from each other. © Федчук Д. А., 2025.