![]() Each successive writer-editor added to previous records. These early portions of Genesis provide us with a pattern for how the rest of the Hebrew Bible or Christian Old Testament was formed. ![]() The earliest sections of the first book of the Bible, Genesis, were composed of genealogical or family history records. According to one authority, the Bible “has had a greater influence on the world for good than any other book ever published.” Many individuals through the ages gave everything they had - health, wealth, reputation and even their very lives - for the single-minded purpose of making God’s word available to all who could read or be read to. The history of the Christian Bible (Old and New Testaments) is a remarkable story filled with high drama, inspiration, intrigue, intellectual brilliance and self-sacrifice. ![]() Skinner- Executive Director of the Neal A Maxwell Institute of Religious Scholarship. ![]()
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