Genesis

Genesis (Greek: Γένεσις, having the meanings of "birth", "creation", "cause", "beginning", "source" and "origin"), also called The First Book of Moses, is the first book of Torah (five books of Moses), and is the first book of the Tanakh, part of the Hebrew Bible; it is also the first book of the Christian Old Testament.

References

• Bruce Vawter, "On Genesis: A New Reading", Doubleday & Co., 1977, An introduction to Genesis by a fine Catholic scholar. Genesis was Vawter's hobby.
• E. A. Speiser, "Genesis, The Anchor Bible", Volume 1. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1964. (A translation with commentary and philological notes by a noted Semitic scholar. The series is written for laypeople and specialists alike.)
• Isaac M. Kikawada & Arthur Quinn, Before Abraham was ? The Unity of Genesis 1-11, Nashville, Tenn, 1985. (A challenge to the Documentary Hypothesis.)
• Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI), In the Beginning, Edinburgh, 1995. (A Catholic understanding of the story of Creation and Fall.)