The book of Genesis is the first book of the Christian Bible and the Hebrew Torah. There is an old tradition that Moses wrote this book, but historians and Bible scholars believe it happened many centuries later.
Genesis is sometimes called the pre-history of the Bible because it's not until the story of Abraham that we find anything that matches up to history. These are the "long ago and far away" stories that the Jewish people told before they were the Jewish people. They reflect the first stirrings of the culture and religion we recognize now. They were preserved by word of mouth for centuries before they were finally written down in the 6th and 5th centuries BC.
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