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The Bible actually tells us that there were a people before the Jews who rejected God.Revisionist Jewish history dates the origin of the Tenakh to the Babylonian Captivity sometime in the 6th Century BCE. If you believe that story then, the Bible all started with the Jews in Babylon.
If you want to put your faith in Moses, then he penned it himself around 1425 BCE during his last years east of the Jordan before he left Joshua in charge and disappeared.
There is no justification for thinking anything in Genesis is literal however. I'm pretty sure Moses dreamed this entire book (called Bereshet in ancient Hebrew) up himself.
We get a better historical account about Moses from Josephus Flavius in the 1st Century A.D. actually. But he also falls into the trap of believing and trying to document Genesis/Bereshet.
Same mistake as you are making too.