In the Beginning is a phrase that is used in many contexts. It is:

• the phrase that opens two books of the Bible: Genesis and the Gospel of John.
• the beginning of a lengthy essay by Neal Stephenson entitled In the Beginning...was the Command Line.
• the first play in George Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah; see In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden).
• a musical play by Maury Yeston; see In the Beginning (play) .
• a Babylon 5 tv movie; see .
• The title of Chaim Potok's book; see In the Beginning (book)