According to early Jewish tradition, God dictated the entire book to Moses on Mt. ... While many Orthodox Jews still hold to this belief, most theologians, non-Orthodox Jews, and Christians no longer accept this view and instead see it as a compilation of stories that were recorded and combined into the final product over a period of time by many different people and that, perhaps, Moses was one of the contributing authors. ... Another important theme derived from this story is that mankind is the crowning achievement of creation as it is man who is created in God's own image Following t...
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