Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan
The oriental Adam book, often called Arabian Adam Adam Ethiopian book or book, is a Christian pseudepigraphisches work that is before us in Arabic and Altäthiopisch.
The book is usually divided into two books, although the first and second book are a combined narrative. The division into two books should have purely technical reasons and is found in the various original texts are not always in the same place.
The Ethiopian text was from August Dillmann under the title The Christian Adam Book of the East translated into German (Göttingen, 1853), the Ethiopian original text was later published by Ernst Trumpp. An English translation of Solomon Caesar Malan appeared in 1882.
The work begins immediately after the expulsion from paradise and ends with the Testament and the rapture of Enoch.
Be emphasized Adams worries and his helplessness in the world outside of Paradise. The mentioned in the Book of Genesis Nephilim are identified with the children sets, and the daughters of men with female descendants of Cain, the most successful offspring seduce sets, egged on by Genum, the son of Lamech. In " Genum " is apparently a fusion of the biblical Jubal and Tubal- Cain.
The story handed down to us is evidence of a strong Christian and ascetic attitude of its author. Unlike the Christianized versions of the Apocalypse of Moses, the Christian doctrine of redemption has not been sporadic and apparently einflochten later in the story, but over long stretches its central element; far-reaching narrative portions bear this thought in the center.
The core element of the narrative, the story of the treasure cave on the Holy Mountain, is the older Jewish tradition up to and including Josephus and is completely alien to the history of the giants from the Book of Enoch against incompatible. Also in the Apocalypse of Moses, even in the later versions, diving to no elements of this tradition.
The Holy Efrem ( Ephraim the Syrian, * 306, † 373 9.6 AD in Edessa, now Urfa / southern Turkey. ) Is the story of the treasure cave known: in his hymns of Paradise, he refers to this. Therefore, the basic narrative must have been made before the 4th century. The time of origin of Adam books in the form available to us can only be bounded coarse; the earliest date the second century would be due to the spiritual orientation conceivable as the latest seventh century, because after the spread of Islam, the previously active contact between the Christians of Arabia and Ethiopia's nearly broke. The Holy Efrem attributed font Treasure Cave tells us the traditional version but shortened without significant deviations. The treasure cave has been written in Aramaic sure that Adam books also likely.