According to the rabbinic sages whose debates produced the Talmud, it was from here the world expanded into its present form and where God gathered the dust used to create the first human, Adam. 2 Chronicles refers to the Temple Mount in the time before the construction of the temple as Mount Moriah (, har ham-Môriyyāh). The land of Moriah (, ʾereṣ ham-Môriyyāh) is the name given by Genesis to the location of Abraham's binding of Isaac. Since at least the first century CE, the two sites have been identified with one another in Judaism, this identification being subsequently perpetuated by Jewish and Christian tradition. Modern scholarship tends to regard them as distinct (see Moriah).