Please explain to me - who actually wrote the book of Genesis...

In church I learned that it was a bunch of desert nomad sheep herders. At last that is what I remember. Really hot dry dirty primitive people.

Now, I don't quite believe that.

I am not being facetious, I genuinely want to know what you think is true?

Doesn't anyone know?

Good question, who has the answer?

Apparently, no one...

Phil Collins.

Moses was the author of Genesis and God supernaturally by his Holy Spirit preserved it through his scribes.

Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible.

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google it or wikipedia and you'll find out

;=)

No, he only wrote Genesis 3:25.

I have heard this rumor....

First of all, how do we determine Moses was the author? How did he write the information down?

Let me backtrack - how do we know Moses was a real person in the first place?

Last Edited by Celia D. on 08/05/2011 08:41 PM

wiseman hypothesis

Nuh uh...Peter Gabriel did.


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This book is apparently the "beginning" for several religions - so, please explain where it actually began..and, of course, how you you know this..

Homer

You can't answer a myth with another myth.........

Biblical scholars pretty well agree that the book of Genesis was written by Moses. It was coherent and literate for the time. He had received the best education available in the ancient world, as a prince of Egypt. He knew of the various creation myths extant, and used a couple in "the beginning..."

By the way, Eqyptian wise men were well aware of fossils and the differing ages of the world. Just as our own scientists divide the ages into jurassic, etc, the Egyptian scholars divided the world into seven ages.

And the very interesting thing is that in the original written language there is only one difference between the word "age" and the word "day", and that is a tiny accent mark about as big as the period at the end of this sentence.

Perhaps, the original was "The world was created in seven ages"...?

Stan Lee

Hans Christian Anderson

Alright - so these folks accepted the book of Genesis was written by a "scholar", named Moses. Why do they accept he was actually transcribing knowledge from "God", as in creator of our universe?

This is the question the occurs to me again and again when various folks talk about the "Bible"...

The one question know one seems able to answer.

why is 'who' a concern ??

To establish a reason anyone in their right mind should pay attention?

Ancient Greek pedophiles.

Not ancient enough,,,

Can't anyone offer a logical answer to my question?

i put content over author, and consider 'what' wrote Genesis

This explanation sounds most logical to me...thanks for asking this excellent question. It never occurred to me! I learned something today thanks to you!


Who wrote the book of Genesis?
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I always believed Moses wrote it also, but how did he know what happened with Adam and Eve and Noah--he was not there?

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When and Where Written. The book of Genesis was evidently part of the one original writing (the Torah), and it was possibly completed by Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the year 1513 B.C.E. After Genesis 1:1, 2 (relating to the creation of the heavens and the earth), the book evidently covers a span of thousands of years involved in the preparation of the earth for human habitation (see CREATION; DAY), and thereafter it covers the period from man’s creation on down to the year 1657 B.C.E., when Joseph died.—See CHRONOLOGY (From Human Creation to the Present).

Writership. The objection once raised by some skeptics that writing was not known in Moses’ day is today generally discounted. In his book New Discoveries in Babylonia About Genesis (1949, p. 35), P. J. Wiseman points out that archaeological research gives ample proof that “the art of writing began in the earliest historical times known to man.” Virtually all modern scholars acknowledge the existence of writing long before the time of Moses (in the second millennium B.C.E.). Expressions such as that found in Exodus 17:14, “Write this as a memorial in the book,” substantiate the fact that writing was in common use in Moses’ day. Adam must have had the ability to devise a form of writing, God having given him, as a perfect man, a language, with the ability to handle it perfectly, even to the extent of composing poetry.—Ge 2:19, 23.

From where did Moses get the information he included in Genesis?

All the information contained in the book of Genesis relates to events that took place prior to Moses’ birth. It could have been received directly by divine revelation. It is obvious that someone had to receive the information relating to the events prior to man’s creation in that way, whether Moses or someone prior to him. (Ge 1:1-27; 2:7, 8) This information and the remaining details, however, could have been transmitted to Moses by means of oral tradition. Because of the long life span of men of that period, the information could have been passed from Adam to Moses through just five human links, namely, Methuselah, Shem, Isaac, Levi, and Amram. A third possibility is that Moses obtained much of the information for Genesis from already existing writings or documents. As far back as the 18th century, the Dutch scholar Campegius Vitringa held this view, basing his conclusion upon the frequent occurrence in Genesis (ten times) of the expression (in KJ) “these are the generations of,” and once “this is the book of the generations of.” (Ge 2:4; 5:1; 6:9; 10:1; 11:10, 27; 25:12, 19; 36:1, 9; 37:2) In this expression the Hebrew word for “generations” is toh·le·dhohth′, and it is better rendered “histories” or “origins.” For example, “generations of the heavens and of the earth” would hardly be fitting, whereas “history of the heavens and the earth” is meaningful. (Ge 2:4) In harmony with this, the German Elberfelder, the French Crampon, and the Spanish Bover-Cantera all use the term “history,” as does the New World Translation. There is no doubt that even as men today are interested in an accurate historical record, so they have been from the start.

For these reasons, Vitringa and others since have understood each use of toh·le·dhohth′ in Genesis to refer to an already existing written historical document that Moses had in his possession and that he relied upon for the majority of the information recorded in Genesis. They believe that the persons named in direct connection with such ‘histories’ (Adam, Noah, Noah’s sons, Shem, Terah, Ishmael, Isaac, Esau, and Jacob) were either the writers or original possessors of those written documents. This, of course, would still leave unexplained how all such documents came to be in the possession of Moses. It also leaves unexplained why documents obtained from men who were not distinguished as faithful worshipers of Jehovah (such as Ishmael and Esau) should be the source of much of the information used. It is entirely possible that the expression “This is the history of” is simply an introductory phrase serving conveniently to divide off the various sections of the long overall history. Compare Matthew’s use of a similar expression to introduce his Gospel account.—Mt 1:1; see WRITING.

No definite conclusion can be arrived at, therefore, as to the immediate source from which Moses obtained the information he recorded. Rather than just by one of the methods discussed, the information may have been received by all three, some through direct revelation, some through oral transmission, some by written records. The important point is that Jehovah God guided the prophet Moses so that he wrote by divine inspiration.—2Pe 1:21.

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Insight on the Scriptures, volume 1, published by Jehovah's Witnesses, from the article: GENESIS, BOOK OF.
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Alright, "what" did, who were they, and why should we care?

This is the original purpose of my post...

sometimes the answer is right in front of you, previous poster said:

wiseman hypothesis

now follow up and learn