Book of Genesis

Details

Instance of

literary work, book of the Bible

Part of

Torah, Old Testament, Catholic Old Testament, Hexateuch, Pentateuch

Has parts

Genesis 1, Genesis 2, Genesis 3, Genesis 4, Genesis 5, Genesis 6, Genesis 7, Genesis 8, Genesis 9, Genesis 10, Genesis 11, Genesis 12

Part of the series

Torah, Pentateuch

Followed by

Exodus

Author

Moses

Genre

religious text

Main subject

cosmogony, Jewish history

Depicts

family, Cain and Abel, Garden of Eden, creation

characters

Tetragrammaton, Adam, Eve, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob, Joseph, Abel, Cain

copyright status

public domain

described by source

Otto's encyclopedia, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus, Orthodox Theological Encyclopedia, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition

entry in abbreviations table

Genesis

first line

בראשית ברא אלוהים את השמים ואת הארץ, Am Anfang schuf Gott Himmel und Erde., In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth., No princípio criou Deus os céus e a terra., Na początku Bóg stworzył niebo i ziemię., Di̱n tsa hu A̱gwaza mat tswazwa ka ma̱ng swanta hu., В начале сотворил Бог небо и землю., V začetku je Bog ustvaril nebo in zemljo.

has edition or translation

Book of Genesis, Genesis, Na počátku, Genesis, Q108949142, Q118160681

language of work or name

Biblical Hebrew

last line

So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

native label

בְּרֵאשִׁית

nickname

ספר הישר

number of parts of this work

50

permanent duplicated item

Q25689980

short name

Gen, Gn, Gên, Rdz

title

Genesis, בראשית, Första Moseboken

topic's main category

Category:Book of Genesis

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