Who wrote the book of Genesis?

Answer 1

The tradition is that Moses wrote the first five books of the old testament. The fact of the matter, we will probably never know.

Answer 2

The book of Genesis is in its source text part of what is called the Masoretic text, in Hebrew. There are divisions asside from the paragraph divisions by the letter Pe and the letter samek, Pe meaning "separate", and samek meaning "partition". So the book of Genesis was composed in parts and branched off, especially in the time of Abraham, where it can be said that the Hebrew portion begins, I believe around chapter 11 or 12.

Part of the reason why this book survives is due to the strong writing tradition in Egypt which was imparted to the Hebrews.

Scripture says Holy men of old spoke as God the Holy spirit moved them.

The best way to know who wrote a text is to analyze its styalistics (the character of the narative written, the way it is written). And I believe that someone grown up in the Egyptian culture wrote the book of Genesis. Also the story of Joseph takes up the greatest part of the book and that takes place in Egypt. Note also that Egyptians were very familiar with floods, from the Nile, and the story of Noah is the story of the great flood; I am very supprised that this does not occur to anyone except for a few scholars (litterally a few).

Answer: someone grown up in the Egyptian culture; (and this is believed from content and styalistics, and possibly language, but that last part would be a controvercial opinion).

Answer 3

It is said that Moses first wrote the book of Genesis.

Answer 4

Most Jews and Christians recognize Moses as the author of Genesis, which he probably wrote sometime after the Exodus from Egypt (about 1445BC).

It is only evident that he wrote at least parts of Deuteronomy because they are written in first person.

Answer 5

Moses did.
And along with the first 5 books in the Bible was written by Moses.
They are: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

Answer 6

Genesis was written by Moses in the wilderness and he completed it in 1513 BCE..covering from " The Begenning" to 1657 BCE.
Moses also wrote Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy and Job.

Answer 7

Genesis?

Answer 8

The entire bible was inspired by God, thus he used several men to write his thoughts down. The man who wrote the book of Genis is Moses. He wrote this book in the dessert during 1513BCE to 1473BCE.

Perhaps you can find more info by visiting the following site:
http://www.watchtower.org/

Answer 9

Four main sources which are called J, E, P, ad D. In the J parts God is very powerful and vengeful. In the E is is very powerful but more of a friemd. The P section is full of expansion of the 10 Commandments. The D explains the law.

Answer 10

traditionally it is believed Moses wrote the book of Genesis, but it has many authors