Books of Adam

Books of Adam

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" is a romance made up of Oriental fables. It was first translated from the Ethiopian version into German by August Dillmann, "Das christliche Adambuch" (Göttingen, 1853), and into English by Solomon Caesar Malan, "The Book of Adam and Eve" (London, 1882).
*The "Pénitence d'Adam", or "Testament d'Adam", is composed of some Syrian fragments translated by Ernest Renan (Journal asiatique, 1853, II, pp. 427-469). "The Penitence of Adam and Eve" has been published in Latin by Wilhelm Meyer in the "Treatises of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences", XIV, 3 (Munich, 1879).
*"The Books of the Daughters of Adam", mentioned in the catalogue of Pope Saint Gelasius in 495-496, who identifies it with the "Book of Jubilees", or "Little Genesis".
*The "Testament of Our First Parents", cited by Anastasius the Sinaïte, LXXXIX, col. 967.

See also

*The scripture of the Mandaean religion, "Ginza Rba", is also titled "The Book of Adam".
*"Apocalypse of Adam"
*"Life of Adam and Eve"
*"Testament of Adam"
*"Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan"

Source

* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01132b.htm "The Books of Adam"] by George J. Reid. "The Catholic Encyclopedia", vol. 1, 1907.


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