Genesis, Book of

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | 653 words | Copyright

Genesis, Book of. The opening Book of the OT. It contains the story of the beginnings of the universe and the early history of the human race. It includes accounts of the Creation, Fall, Flood, the call of Abraham, and the story of Joseph's captivity in Egypt and the prosperity of his family there. The Book has traditionally been held to be the work of Moses, but most modern scholars believe either that it is a composite structure made up of materials from sources which can be traced also in other Books of the Pentateuch or that, together with the rest of the Pentateuch, it forms a unified composition from a period much later than that of Moses.

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