Adam books

Adambücher is a loose collective name for Jewish and Christian writings that refer to Adam and Eve , but do not belong to the Bible canon . These include:

• the Adam books in the narrower sense, known as the life of Adam and Eve (Latin versions) or also the Apocalypse of Moses (Greek versions), a group of closely related writings that have been handed down in Greek, Latin, Armenian, Georgian and Slavic versions.
• The Christian Adam Book of the Orient , translated from Old Ethiopian into German by August Dillmann (Göttingen, 1853).
• the Syrian testament of Adam , edited by Ernest Renan and translated into French (Journal asiatique, 1853, II, pp. 427–469).
• the Book of the Daughters of Adam , contained in the catalog of the Decretum Gelasianum , probably the Book of Jubilees , also known as Little Genesis .
• the will of our first parents , mentioned by Anastasios Sinaites , LXXXIX, col. 967.
• the Gnostic Apocalypse of Adam .
• the treasure cave .
• Sidra Rabba , also known as Adam's Book of the Mandaeans , is the sacred scripture of Mandaeism , there in particular the introductoryparts ofthe Left Ginza (ginza smala).

literature

• Gary A. Anderson, Michael E. Stone: A Synopsis of the Books of Adam and Eve. Society of Biblical Literature: Early Judaim and its Literature 5th Scholar Press, Atlanta 1994, ISBN 1555409636
• Gary A. Anderson, Michael E. Stone, Johannes Tromp: Literature on Adam and Eve: Collected Essays. Brill, Leiden u. a. 2000, ISBN 9004116001
• W. Lowndes Lipscomb: The Armenian Apocryphal Adam Literature. University of Pennsylvania, 1990, ISBN 1-55540-455-3
• Michael E. Stone: A history of the literature of Adam and Eve. Scholar Press, Atlanta 1992, ISBN 1555407153
• Robert Henry Charles (Ed.): The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English. Vol. 2: Pseudepigrapha. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1913. pp. 123-154. On-line
• Ferdinand Dexinger, Clemens Scholten: Adam, VII. Apocalyptic writings . In: Lexicon for Theology and Church (LThK). 3. Edition. Volume 1, 1993, Col. 138 f.
• F. Dingermann: Adam book . In: Lexicon for Theology and Church . 2nd Edition. Volume 1, 1957, Col. 133 f.