“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) In The Torah, Volume 1: A Verse-by-Verse Guide to Genesis, Tom Meyer provides insights into the historical and geographical settings of Genesis in order to deepen our understanding of this foundational book of the Bible. He gives us a glimpse of how the original audience understood Genesis by taking us to a world unlike our own in the West—a world where we find ourselves traveling in a camel caravan, dwelling in a tent, or securing water rights in the desert.