Genesis
Genesis is the book of beginnings: the cosmos spoken into being, humanity made in God's image, and the long shadow of the fall stretching across a broken world. Its first eleven chapters move with sweeping speed through creation, catastrophe, and scattered nations; then the story slows to follow one family. God calls Abraham with a promise that his offspring will bless every nation, and the rest of the book traces that promise through famine, deception, rivalry, and reconciliation. By the end, a family of seventy stands in Egypt, carrying the hope of the world in its bloodline.
Traditionally Moses; the book itself is anonymous, and its composition history is debated.
Primeval and patriarchal events; written between the exodus era and exile.
Israel, needing to know its origins, its God, and the promises it carried.
To trace the world's origins and God's covenant promise to Abraham's family, through whom all nations would be blessed.