<P> The basic narrative of the Book of Genesis is centered around a few themes: God, the creation of the world, the creation of Adam and Eve and how man was appointed as the regent of God . Later on the book describes man's disobedience of God, and the exile of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden . </P> <P> The book continues to describe how God destroyed the world through the Flood . The new post-Flood world is also corrupt . God does not destroy it, instead calling one man, Abraham, to be the seed of its salvation . At God's command Abraham descends from his home into the land of Canaan, given to him by God, where he dwells as a sojourner, as does his son Isaac and his grandson Jacob . Jacob's name is changed to Israel, and through the agency of his son Joseph, the children of Israel descend into Egypt, 70 people in all with their households, and God promises them a future of greatness . Genesis ends with Israel in Egypt, ready for the coming of Moses and the Exodus . The narrative is punctuated by a series of covenants with God, successively narrowing in scope from all mankind (the covenant with Noah) to a special relationship with one people alone (Abraham and his descendants through Isaac and Jacob). </P> <P> The book's author or authors appear to have structured it around ten "toledot" sections (the "these are the generations of ..." phrases), but modern commentators see it in terms of a "primeval history" (chapters 1--11) followed by the cycle of Patriarchal stories (chapters 12--50). In Judaism, the theological importance of Genesis centers on the covenants linking God to his chosen people and the people to the Promised Land . Christianity has interpreted Genesis as the prefiguration of certain cardinal Christian beliefs, primarily the need for salvation (the hope or assurance of all Christians) and the redemptive act of Christ on the Cross as the fulfillment of covenant promises as the Son of God . </P> <P> Tradition credits Moses as the author of Genesis, as well as Exodus, Book of Leviticus, Numbers and most of Book of Deuteronomy, but modern scholars increasingly see them as a product of the 6th and 5th centuries BC . </P>

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