PentateuchGenesis
Old Testament · Pentateuch · 50 chapters
Beginnings: creation, the fall, the flood, and the stories of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, through whom God’s promise to bless all nations unfolds.
Context
- Genre
- Primeval and ancestral narrative
- Authorship
- Traditionally attributed to MosesIts composition is widely discussed.
- Setting
- Ancient Near East
- Original language
- Hebrew
- In the original
- בָּרָאbara — create
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