Adam, Books of
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views updated Jun 08 2018Adam, Books of. Apocryphal books. They include the
Book of the Life of Adam and Eve (probably composed in
Palestine between 100 BCE and 200 CE), the
Cave of Treasures (a Syriac work), the Ethiopic
Book of Adam and Eve, and various Armenian compositions dealing with the Adam and Eve legend.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions JOHN BOWKER