The Books of Adam is a collective name of several

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Adam and Eve Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman. They are central to the belief that humanity is in essence a single family, with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors. ...

. *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 ''

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''. It was first translated from the 6th century

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August Dillmann Christian Friedrich August Dillmann (25 April 18237 July 1894) was a German orientalist and biblical scholar. Life The son of a Württemberg schoolmaster, he was born at Illingen. He was educated at the University of Tübingen, where he became ...

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Solomon Caesar Malan Solomon Caesar Malan (22 April 1812 – 25 November 1894) D.D., Vicar of Broadwindsor, Prebendary of Sarum, was a British divine, polyglot and well known orientalist whose fluency in language was legendary: English, French, Sanskrit, Arabic, ...

. *The "Pénitence d'Adam", or "Testament d'Adam", composed of some Syrian fragments translated by Ernest Renan. "The Penitence of Adam and Eve" has been published in

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by Wilhelm Meyer. *"The Books of the Daughters of Adam", mentioned in the catalogue of Pope Gelasius I in 495–496, who identifies it with the ''

Book of Jubilees The Book of Jubilees, sometimes called Lesser Genesis (Leptogenesis), is an ancient Jewish religious work of 50 chapters (1,341 verses), considered canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church as well as Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews), where it is ...

'', or "Little Genesis". *The "Testament of Our First Parents", cited by Anastasius the Sinaïte. *The Book of Adam ( Adamgirk) by Arakel of Siwnik (Arakel Sunetsi), a book of poetry on Adam and Eve. It was written in 1403, and first published in 1799. It was first translated to English by Michael E. Stone.

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"The Books of Adam"
by George J. Reid. ''The Catholic Encyclopedia'', vol. 1, 1907. Old Testament pseudepigrapha Old Testament pseudepigrapha related with Adam and Eve {{Christian-book-stub

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