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There are there two periods during which Moses could have written Genesis: before returning to Egypt or after leaving. If before the location would be Midian; if after the location was the "wilderness" (which could also include Midian). So the location can be narrowed down to the Sinai Peninsula and the date to the time of the Exodus.
Conclusion. All the evidence points to the book of Job having been written by Moses during his 40 years as a shepherd, before he reached 80 years of age when he was called by God to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. This is the same time period in which Moses would have been writing the book of Genesis.
For an essentially complete Hebrew copy of Genesis you need to go to the 10th century Aleppo Codex, except that the Genesis portion of this manuscript was destroyed in anti-semitic riots in 1947. So for an extant essentially complete Hebrew copy of Genesis, I think the oldest is the Leningrad Codex from 1008/1009 CE. Share.
Only the first chapter of Genesis bears any resemblance to the Enuma Elish, and even there the similarity is mainly structural. If Genesis 1 was derived at all from the Enuma Elish, it was more like a parody than "the same story line with a different perspective". –
Moses wrote all 5 books (except the last 8 verses of Deuteronomy) circa 14th-century BC. All five books of the Torah were compiled from earlier sources (oral & written) principally derived from Moses, but they did not reach their final form until the time of the Babylonian captivity. The first four books were compiled from Moses' work after ...
Genesis is included in the Torah, which is the first five books of the Bible. Joshua 8:31 says that Moses wrote the Torah: And there, in the presence of the people of Israel, he [Joshua] wrote on the stones a copy of the law [torah] of Moses, which he [Moses] had written. (ESV)
16. Scholars have been raising doubts about Moses' authorship since the mid-1600s, when Thomas Hobbes noted that certain passages in the five books of the Torah seemed to indicate they had been added by a later writer. Genesis 12:6, "At that time the Canaanites were in the land." And they still were in Moses' time.
In contrast to the JEPD theory, there’s actually strong archaeological evidence that the first part of Genesis was written on clay tablets in the ancient Mesopotamian style based on the "signatures" of 11 authors following (not preceding) the text they wrote. These follow the format of “These are the generations of . . .”
Jeff A. Benner (' Poetry in the Hebrew Bible ') finds multiple levels of poetry in the first creation story (Genesis 1:1-2:3). First, Benner defines a chiastic structure for this passage, although I would regard it as a parallel structure (one in which the second set is not reversed). Either way, this is a form of poetry common to ancient ...
The chronological Bible plan is apparently taking that view, and Job was probably put between Genesis & Exodus as a convenient place to put in near the Patriarchal period (it may be during Genesis accounts, not between). However, I do not see the question here as a duplicate. – ScottS. Nov 9, 2016 at 22:20.