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 Dillman, "Das christliche Adambuch" (Göttingen, 1853), and into English by 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 Renan (Journal asiatique, 1853, II, pp. 427-469). "The Penitence of Adam and Eve" has been published in Latin by W. Meyer in the "Treatises of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences", XIV, 3 (Munich, 1879). To these are added "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", and also the "Testament of Our First Parents", cited by Anastasius the Sinaïte, LXXXIX, col. 967. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Deuterocanonical books. ... This article is about the biblical Adam and Eve. ... Extensible VAX Editor EVE stands for Extensible VAX Editor, a flexible text editor that is part of the VMS operating system. ... The term the Orient - literally meaning sunrise, east - is traditionally used to refer to Near, Middle, and Far Eastern countries. ... Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Events Cerdic of Wessex raids Hampshire. ...

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

Mandaeanism is a religion which has been classified by scholars as Gnostic. ... Ginza Rba (in Mandaic, which translates into The Great Treasure) or Siddra Rba (The Great Book) is one of many holy scriptures of the Mandaean religion. ... The Apocalypse of Adam discovered in 1945 as part of the Nag Hammadi Library is a Gnostic work written in Coptic. ... The Life of Adam and Eve is a Jewish pseudepigraphical writing, the original of which was perhaps written around 70 BCE. The texts that have survived are later variants written in Greek, Latin, Slavonic, Armenian, Georgian and Coptic (fragments only). ... The Testament of Adam is a Christian pseudepigraphical work extant in Syriac and Arabic. ... The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan is a Christian pseudepigraphical work found in Ethiopic and Arabic, 5th century at earliest. ...

Source

"The Books of Adam" by George J. Reid. The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 1, 1907.

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