ADAM, Book of, works dealing with Adam and Eve and the story of the Creation. One of the earliest of these, supposed to have been called (The Life of Adam and Eve,' and of Hebrew origin, was published in Greek by Tischendotf in
Apocrypha:' (1866) under the misleading title of
lypses of Moses,' because in the introduction the story is said to be recorded to Moses and later by Ceriani, in his
sacra et profane (1868). Conybeare, in the Jewish Quarterly Review (1895), has presented an English version of this work, translated from an Armenian text. An old Slavic version has been published with a Latin translation by Jagi6 in (Denkschriften der Wiener Akademie der Wissenshaften' (1893). There is also a Latin
Adz et
of which the best text is that published by Meyer in
lungen der Bayrischen Akademie der Wissen shaften' (1878). This work relates the story of the Creation, the Fall, the penitence of Adam and Eve, their restoration to divine favor and their death and burial. Apparently it dates from the 1st century before Christ and was written either in Hebrew or Aramaic. The
by Trumpp in
der Miinchener Akademie der Wissenshaften> (1881). Transla tions were published by Dillman:
Christ liche Adatnsbuch des Orients' (1853); Migne's