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The Books of Adam is a collective name of several apocryphal books relating to Adam and Eve. The Book of Adam or "Contradiction of Adam and Eve" , denigrated as "a romance made up of Oriental fables" by the 1913 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia .
Gnostics discussed Adam and Eve in two known surviving texts, namely the "Apocalypse of Adam" found in the Nag Hammadi documents and the Testament of Adam. The creation of Adam as Protoanthropos , the original man, is the focal concept of these writings.
The second half of the book, The Forgotten Books of Eden, includes a translation originally published in 1882 of the "First and Second Books of Adam and Eve", translated first from ancient Ethiopic to German by Ernest Trumpp and then into English by Solomon Caesar Malan, and a number of items of Old Testament pseudepigrapha, such as reprinted ...
The genealogies of Genesis provide the framework around which the Book of Genesis is structured. [1] Beginning with Adam, genealogical material in Genesis 4, 5, 10, 11, 22, 25, 29–30, 35–36, and 46 moves the narrative forward from the creation to the beginnings of the Israelites' existence as a people.
Gary A. Anderson, Michael E. Stone, Johannes Tromp Literature on Adam and Eve: Collected Essays ISBN 90-04-11600-1 (2000) H.F.D. Sparks The Apocryphal Old Testament ISBN 0-19-826177-2 (1984) M.D. Johnson Life of Adam and Eve, a new translation and introduction in ed. J.H. Charlesworth the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Vol 2 ISBN 0-385-18813-7 (1985)
The Testament of Adam is a Christian work of Old Testament pseudepigrapha that dates from the 2nd to 5th centuries AD in origin, perhaps composed within the Christian communities of Syria. It purports to relate the final words of Adam to his son Seth ; Seth records the Testament and then buries the account in the legendary Cave of Treasures.
The Book of Genesis ... Adam and Eve, as the first man and woman, and places them in the Garden of Eden. ... New York: Free Press, 2003.
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve is a non-fiction book by American literary historian Stephen Greenblatt, published in 2017. The book delves into the rise and fall of the story of Adam and Eve in Western culture .