Lectionary Calendar
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024
the Fifth Week of Lent
There are 12 days til Easter!
Attention!
StudyLight.org has pledged to help build churches in Uganda. Help us with that pledge and support pastors in the heart of Africa.
Click here to join the effort!

Bible Encyclopedias
Adam, Books of

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Search for…
or
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
Prev Entry
Adam in the Old Testament
Next Entry
Adam, City of
Resource Toolbox
Additional Links

Books pretending to give the life and deeds of Adam and other Old Testament worthies existed in abundance among the Jews and the early Christians. The Talmud speaks of a Book of Adam, which is now lost, but which probably furnished some of the material which appears in early Christian writings. The Vita Adami was translated from the Ethiopic by Dillmann (1853), and into English by Malan ( The Book of Adam and Eve , London, 1882). The Testament of Adam is a portion of the Vita Adami (published by Renan in 1853) and so probably is the Diathḗkē tō̇n Prōtoplástōn (Fabricius, II, 83). See APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE; APOCRYPHA .

Bibliography Information
Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Adam, Books of'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​isb/​a/adam-books-of.html. 1915.
adsFree icon
Ads FreeProfile