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Genesis in Easton's Bible Dictionary

The five books of Moses were collectively called the Pentateuch, a word of Greek origin meaning "the five-fold book." The Jews called them the Torah, i.e., "the law." It is probable that the division of the Torah into five books proceeded from the Greek translators of the Old Testament. The names by which these several books are generally...

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The Book of Genesis in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

The Hebrew name is Bereeshit, from its opening word "in the beginning." Septuagint Genesis means generation, i.e. creation and birth of the universe, man, and history. It is a religious history, therefore it omits accounts in detail of other nations, and concentrates attention on the origin of that one from whom the promised Redeemer of man fr...

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The Book of Genesis in the Picture Study Bible

Chapter by chapter and verse by verse overview of the Book of Genesis with pictures, and notes on archaeology, theology, history, customs, and more....

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Genesis in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE 1. General Info 2. Composition

LITERATURE I. General Data. 1. The Name: The first book of Moses is named by the Jews from the first word, namely, bere'shith, i.e. "in the beginning" (compare the Bresith of Origen]). In the Septuagint it is called Genesis, because it recounts the beginnings of the world and of mankind. This name has passed over into the Vulgate (Jero...

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Genesis Types: 1. The First Adam, A Type of the Last Adam

(Genesis 1-3). Scriptural warrant for Adam as a type of Christ. "Who is the figure of him that was to come" (Romans 5:14). In I Corinthians 15:45 Paul refers to Christ as the Last Adam, and thus He is the antitype of the First Adam. In some phases Adam is a type of Christ by contrast rather than by comparison. Adam was the Son of God in...

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