Genesis is not an ordinary book. It is the answer to the deepest question a human being can ask: Where do I come from, and why am I here? Moses writes this book for a people who have just been freed from slavery and have no story of their own to stand on. In this opening episode, you will meet the author, his world, and the audience he was writing for. You will see why Genesis is not mythology but the cornerstone of the entire Bible, and why the thread running through all fifty chapters points, in the end, to a single person.

Sources and show notes for this episode:

Bible passages: Genesis 1:1 (Bereshit), Genesis 3:15 (the proto-evangelium), Acts 7:22 (Moses educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians), 1 Corinthians 15:45 (Christ as the second Adam), Revelation 22:1–2 (the garden and the tree in the new Jerusalem).

Key original-language terms: Bereshit (Hebrew: in the beginning), Torah (Hebrew: instruction, law), Pentateuch (Greek: five vessels), Genesis (Greek: origin, beginning), proto-evangelium (Latin/Greek: first gospel).

Historical background: The dating of the Exodus and the composition of the Torah to approximately 1440 BC, based on 1 Kings 6:1 (480 years before the construction of Solomon's Temple, around 966 BC). The Egyptian cultural context and scribal traditions of the Eighteenth Dynasty as the historical setting for Moses as author.

Theological connections: The ark as a type of salvation in Christ (1 Peter 3:20–21). The binding of Isaac as a type of the cross (Genesis 22; cf. John 3:16). Joseph as a type of the suffering and exalted Christ (Genesis 37–50; cf. Acts 7:9–16).

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Credits:

Script & Research: Frank Morgenstern

Narrator: TTS Voice (Google Gemini).

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