Tao Te Ching and Genesis

The Book of Genesis, the first book in the bible is generally considered to be in the genre of Narrative. Tradition attributes the writing of the Book of Genesis to Moses in roughly, 1400 B.C.E., but this theory is almost certainly incorrect. More current scholarship suggests that Genesis was not written as a single complete and whole document all at one point, but rather was pasted together from at least four separate documents, the earliest of which probably dates from no earlier than 800 B.C.E. As with all dates surrounding the provenance of biblical documents within the Old Testament, it is very difficult indeed to determine the actual date of composition and scholarly disagreements about the time of its composition result in the formulation of proposed dates of composition that vary by literally hundreds of years. Genesis was written in Hebrew, although there are a...
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