In most editions of the Christian Bible, Genesis comes first. But it was almost certainly not the first book of the Bible to be completed.
Amos [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Of course, like many early biblical texts, traces of earlier texts are apparent – in this case, the Sumerian “city laments” that mourned the fall of ancient cities. The Book of Amos may have been influenced by the Lament for Ur, which was written about 1250 years earlier. That lament is also thought to have contributed to Lamentations, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and one of the Psalms.
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