Who Wrote the Book of Genesis?
And where was the Garden of Eden? Was there a UFO connection? Ocean scene with golden sunset. Image by Jonny Belvedere on Pixabay Scriptures are pasted from biblegateway.com, NKJV. WHEN Genesis was written? For decades of my Christian existence, I thought it was a given that Moses wrote the five books of the Torah, Genesis through Deuteronomy. In the Christian Bible, the Torah is usually called the five books of Moses. My Lutheran Bible tells me that Martin Luther never doubted that Moses wrote Genesis, and the modern study notes state clearly that Moses wrote the book. That surprises me because Genesis itself makes no pretense that he wrote it, but rather tells us that it was written well after Israel replaced the Canaanites in the land. Moses never made it to Canaan, so he couldn’t have testified to the Conquest. It’s almost as if I had to throw off my own literalist approach to Genesis before my brain gave my eyeballs permission to see the following passages: G...