“The Expulsion from the Garden” by Gustave Doré
The Hebrew Bible, and more specifically the book of Genesis, is made up of many texts from different periods, as well as a variety of sources. Stylistic features and inconsistencies show us that the Bible does not have one single writer, but many.
Genesis, unlike other ancient creation stories, begins not with earth, sky, and sea but with God himself, the originator of everything. Genesis is the Greek word for “origin” or “birth.” In opposition to the Enuma Elish and Theogony, human beings occupy the center of the story about the world’s creation. God himself can be seen as the most vivid and complex character of the book of Genesis.