Primeval history

Articles relating to the primeval history, the first eleven chapters of the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew bible. These chapters convey the story of the first years of the world's existence. The primeval history is generally considered to have been completed along with the rest of the Book of Genesis in the 5th century BCE, but a sizeable minority of scholars have dated it to the 3rd century BCE, pointing to discontinuities between the contents of the work and other parts of the Hebrew Bible.