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THE BOOK OF ADAM

 

 

 

 


 

CONTENTS

 

  Chapter  

Description

 
 

                                   

     
 

I [ 1]

 

Discovery of Expulsion

 
 

II [ 2]

 

Hunger

 
 

III [ 3]

 

Search for Food

 
 

IV [ 4]

 

Decision to Repent

 
 

V [ 5]

 

Penitence and Second Temptation

 
 

VI [ 6]

 

Days of Penitence

 
 

VII [ 7]

 

Eve goes to the Tigris River

 
 

VIII [ 8]

 

Adam at the Jordan River

 
 

IX [ 9]

 

The Devil speaks to Eve

 
 

X [10]

 

Eve came up out of the water

 
 

XI [11]

 

Adam questions why

 
 

XII [12]

 

Fall of Satan

 
 

XIII [13]

 

The Devil's reply

 
 

XIV [14]

 

Michael tells all angels to bow down

 
 

XV [15]

 

Six classes of angels refuse

 
 

XVI [16]

 

The anger of God

 
 

XVII [17]

 

Adam speaks to God

 
 

XVIII [18]

 

Separation of Adam and Eve

 
 

XIX [19]

 

Eve wails towards God

 
 

XX [20]

 

Adam seeks Eve

 
 

XXI [21]

 

Eve gives birth to Cain

 
 

XXII [22]

 

Birth of Abel

 
 

XXIII [23]

 

Separation of Cain and Abel

 
 

XXIV [24]

 

Cain kills Abel

 
 

XXV [25]

 

Birth of Seth

 
 

XXVI [26]

 

Illness of Adam

 
 

XXVII [27]

 

Seth questions Adam

 
 

XXVIII [28]

 

Adam's Story of the Fall

 
 

XXIX [29]

 

The scorn of God

 
 

XXX [30]

 

Command to retrieve the oil

 
 

XXXI [31]

 

Encounter with the Beast

 
 

XXXII [32]

 

The reply of the Beast

 
 

XXXIII [33]

 

The Beast leaves

 
 

XXXIV [34]

 

Arrival at Paradise. Michael's reply.

 
 

XXXV [35]

 

Adam's rebuke of Eve

 
 

XXXVI [36]

 

The portions of Adam and Eve in Paradise

 
 

XXXVII [37]

 

Satan's encounter with the Beast

 
 

XXXVIII [38]

 

Serpent's approach to Paradise

 
 

XXXIX [39]

 

Temptation of Eve

 
 

XL [40]

 

Entrance of the Snake into Paradise

 
 

XLI [41]

 

Eve's recognition of Her sin

 
 

XLII [42]

 

Temptation of Adam

 
 

XLIII [43]

 

Entry of God into Paradise

 
 

XLIV [44]

 

God summons Adam

 
 

XLV [45]

 

Judgment of Adam

 
 

XLVI [46]

 

Judgment of Eve

 
 

XLVII [47]

 

Judgment of the Serpent

 
 

XLVIII [48]

 

Adam's plea for mercy

 
 

XLIX [49]

 

God's reply

 
 

L [50]

 

Expulsion from Paradise

 
 

LI [51]

 

End of Eve's teachings

 
 

LII [52]

 

Death of Adam

 
 

LIII [53]

 

Eve's confession

 
 

LIV [54]

 

Angelic liturgy

 
 

LV [55]

 

Eve speaks to Seth

 
 

LVI [56]

 

Eve questions Seth

 
 

LVII [57]

 

Seth replies

 
 

LVIII [58]

 

Assumption of Adam to Paradise

 
 

LIX [59]

 

Assemblage of angels

 
 

LX [60]

 

God speaks to Adam

 
 

LXI [61]

 

Adam and Abel's Funerary Rites

 
 

LXII [62]

 

Promise of resurrection

 
 

LXIII [63]

 

Eve's prayer to join Adam

 
 

LXIV [64]

 

Eve's funeral and epilogue

 
     

 

     

 

THE BOOK OF ADAM

 

CHAPTER 1. [1]

Discovery of Expulsion.

 

   

 

1.  

It came to pass, when Adam went out from paradise with his wife Eve, they went out at the eastern part of paradise. And Adam made a hut to live in. They both entered (it) and resided there for seven days. They both wept with abundant tears for they regretted the residences of the kingdom from which they had been expelled.

 

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