Genesis

Tremper Longman III & Raymond B. Dillard
An Introduction to the Old Testament

The opening book of the Bible appropriately begins with the phrase “In the beginning.” This phrase…is also used as the title of the book in Jewish tradition. Indeed, it is a book of beginnings or “origins” as its English title Genesis (derived from the Septuagint [Gen. 2:4a is its likely source]) suggests. Although infrequently cited elsewhere, the book is foundational to the rest of the Torah (the first five books of the Bible), to the Old Testament, and even to the New Testament. read more...