GENESIS belongs to the Old Testament books having a Greek name. Although most of the book’s chapters regard Israel, the Creation stories were and remain so crucial for the life of Israel itself, that Genesis (Making, Creation) deserves its name completely. God in the tradition of Israel is first and above any other of His properties and powers ‘the Creator’. The book of Genesis can be divided into two parts, the first one (Chapters 1–11) dealing with the making of the world, the original sin, the corruption of men and the flood, the second (Chapters 12–50) with the making of Israel’s power, pictured so boldly in the change of Abraham’s and Sarah’s names to signify Israel as the spiritual origin of a multitude of nations. The book of Genesis had a lot of interpretations in Christianity, including the speeches of Basil the Great on the creation of the world (PG 29) complemented by those of his brother Gregory of Nyssa (PG 44). Commentaries were written by Origen, Ephrem the Syrian, John Chrysostom, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Theodoret of Cyrus, Ambrose of Milan, Jerome, Augustine, Cyril of Alexandria, Procopius Gazaius...