All Three Books of Adam and Eve

The First Book of Adam and Eve, The Second Book of Adam and Eve, The Slavonic Book of Adam and Eve

Dr. Edward Hammond

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All Three Books of Adam and Eve

The First Book of Adam and Eve, The Second Book of Adam and Eve, The Slavonic Book of Adam and Eve

Copyright © 2011 and 2018 Edward Hammond

Second Edition 2018

All Rights Reserved

All translations by Dr. Edward Hammond unless otherwise stated.

Contents

Introduction

The First Book of Adam and Eve

The Second Book of Adam and Eve

The Slavonic Life of Adam and Eve

Also by Dr. Edward Hammond

About Dr. Edward Hammond

Introduction

The First and Second Books of Adam and Eve are classed as pseudegraphica which means false works. The books are thought to have their source in the fifth or sixth century CE, but they show evidence of extensive and much later Christian additions from after the time of Middle Ages.

The Slavonic Life of Adam and Eve, also known as The Third Book of Adam and Eve, is 28-39 of the Latin Life of Adam and Eve. It is not found in the Greek text of the Life of Adam and Eve.

The First and Second Books of Adam and Eve are also known as The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan. They are a late Christian work dating hundreds of years after the actual Biblical Scriptures.

The First Book of Adam and Eve tells the story of what happened to Adam and Eve after they left Eden. It tells of the difficulties they encountered in their new home known as the Cave of Treasures, and of Satan's many appearances (often mistranslated as apparitions) to them.

The First Book of Adam and Eve also chronicles the birth of Cain and his twin sister Luluwa and of Abel and his twin sister Aklemia. It also details Cain's murder of Abel, as well as Adam's death. The first book focuses on Adam's sorrow at being outside the Garden of Eden.

Adam and Eve are constantly plagued by visits from Satan, who appears to them in many forms and attempts to trick them over and over again.

The Second Books of Adam and Eve is an account of the history of the patriarchs who lived before the Flood. It chronicles the lives of Seth's descendants on the Holy Mountain and tells how they broke God's commandment and left the mountain, being tricked by Cain's descendants.

The First Book of Adam and Eve

Chap. I.

God commands Adam to live in the Cave of Treasures.

1 On the third day, God planted the garden in the east of the earth, on the border of the world towards the east. Beyond that, towards the sun's rising, no one finds anything but water, and the water encompasses the whole world and reaches as far as the borders of the sky.

2 To the north of the garden there is a sea which tastes clear and pure, like nothing else. It is so clear that one may look into the depths of the earth through it.

3 When a man washes himself in it, he becomes clean just as it is clean, and he becomes white just as it is white, even if he were a dark man.

4 God took great pleasure in creating that sea, because he knew what would happen to the man he would make. God knew that after the man had left the garden due to his sin, that men would be born in the earth, and that righteous ones among them would die. However, God would raise the souls of the righteous ones on the last day, when they returned to flesh, if they bathed in the water of that sea, and repented from all their sins.

5 But when God made Adam leave the garden, he did not put him on the north border, in case Adam went to the sea and he and Eve wash themselves in it, be cleansed from their sins, and forget the sin they had committed, and Adam no longer remembered why he was being punished for it.

6 As for the south side of the garden, God was not happy letting Adam live there, because when the wind blew from the north, it would bring the delightful scent of the trees of the garden to Adam who was on the south side.

7 The reason that God did not put Adam there, was so that he would have smelled the delightful scent of those trees and forgotten his sin, and found comfort for what he had done, delighting in the scent of the trees, and not being cleansed from his sin.

8 Also because God is merciful and has great pity, and rules all things in a way which only he knows, he made our ancestor Adam live in the western border of the garden, because everything on that side the earth is very spacious.

9 God commanded Adam to live there in a cave in a rock called the Cave of Treasures, which was below the garden.

Chap. II.

Adam and Eve are upset to leave the Garden.

1 But when our ancestors Adam and Eve left the garden, they trod the ground under their feet, and did not knowing where they were going.

2 When they arrived at the opening of the garden's gate, they saw the spacious earth spread out in front of them. It was covered with large and small stones, and also with sand. They shook with fear, and fell on their faces from the fear that came on them. They were deathly afraid.

3 Previously they had been in the garden land, which was beautifully planted with all kinds of trees, but now they now saw themselves in a foreign land which they did not know, and had never seen before.

4 This was because previously they were filled with the grace of a Bright Nature, and their hearts were not turned towards earthly things.

5 So then had God pity on them when he saw them fallen in front of the gate of the garden, and he sent his Word to father Adam and Eve, and lifted them from their fallen state.

Chap. III.

The promise of the five and a half days.

1 God said to Adam, "I have ordained days and years for this land, and you and your descendants will live on in it, until the time is fulfilled for me to send the Word that created you, and against which you have sinned, the Word that made you leave the garden and that lifted you when you had fallen.

2 This is the Word that will again save you when the five days and a half have come to pass.

3 But when Adam heard what God said about the great five and a half days, he did not understand what it meant.

4 Adam thought that there would be only five and a half days until the end of the world.

5 Adam cried, and prayed that God would explain it to him.

6 Then God in his mercy for Adam who was made after his own image and likeness, explained to him that these were 5,500 years, and how one would then come and save him and his descendants.

7 But God had previously made this covenant with our ancestor, Adam, in the same terms, before he left the garden, when he was at the tree from which Eve had taken the fruit and given it to him to eat.

8 When our ancestor Adam left the garden, he went past that tree, and saw how God had changed its appearance, and how it withered.

9 When Adam went to it he was afraid and trembled and fell down, but God in his mercy lifted him up, and then made this covenant with him.

10 When Adam was at the gate of the garden, and saw the cherub with a sword of flashing fire in his hand, the cherub became angry and frowned at him, so both Adam and Eve became afraid of him, and thought he was going to kill them. So they fell on their faces and trembled with fear.

11 But he had pity on them, and showed them mercy. He left them and went up to heaven, and prayed to the Lord,

12 "Lord, you sent me to guard the gate of the garden with a fiery sword.

13 But when your servants, Adam and Eve, saw me, they fell on their faces as dead. My Lord, what will we do to your servants?

14 Then God had pity on them, and showed them mercy, and sent his Angel to guard the garden.

15 The Word of the Lord came to Adam and Eve and uplifted them.

16 The Lord said to Adam, "I told you that at the end of five and a half days, I will send my Word and save you.

17 So then strengthen your mind and live in the Cave of Treasures, about which I have previously spoken to you.

18 When Adam heard this Word from God, he was comforted with what God had said, for God had told him how he would save him.

Chap. IV.

Adam and Eve enter the Cave of Treasures.

1 Adam and Eve cried because they had left the garden, their first abode.

2 Certainly when Adam looked at his changed flesh, he cried bitterly, both him and Eve, over what they had done. They walked quietly down into the Cave of Treasures.

3 When they arrived there Adam cried to himself and said to Eve, "Look at this cave that is to be our prison in this world, and a place of punishment!

4 "What is it compared to the garden? It is narrow but the other was spacious!

5 "What is this rock, by the side of those groves? This cavern is gloomy, whereas the garden was light!

6 "What is this overhanging ledge of rock to shelter us, compared with the mercy of the Lord that overshadowed us?

7 What is the soil of this cave compared with the garden land? This earth is covered with stones, and that land was planted with delicious fruit-trees!

8 Adam said to Eve, "Look at your eyes, and at mine, which previously watched angels in heaven praising without ceasing.

9 But now we do not see as we once did: our eyes have become flesh, and so they cannot see in the same way as they saw before.

10 Again Adam said to Eve, What is our body today, compared to what it was in previous times, when we lived in the garden?

11 After this Adam did not wish to enter the cave, under the overhanging rock, nor would he ever have entered it.

12 But he bowed to God's orders and so he said to himself, If I do not enter the cave, I will again be a sinner.

Chap. V.

Eve takes the blame on herself.

1 Adam and Eve entered the cave and stood there praying in their own language, which was unknown to us, but which they knew well.

2 As they prayed, Adam lifted his eyes and saw the rock and the roof of the cave that covered him overhead, and prevented him seeing heaven and God's creatures. So he cried and hit himself heavily on his chest, until he fell down like a dead man.

3 Eve sat there weeping, for she believed he was dead.

4 Then she got up and spread her hands towards God, petitioning God for mercy and pity, and said, "My God, forgive the sin I committed, and do not hold it against me.

5 "For I alone made your servant fall from the garden into this lost position, from light into this darkness, and from the living place of happiness into this prison.

6 "My God, look at this your servant who has fallen, and raise him from his death, so that he may cry and repent of his sin which he committed through me.

7 "Do not take away his life this time, but let him live so that he may stand after he repents, and do your will, as he did before his death.

8 "My God, if you do not raise him up, then take away my own soul so that I will be like him, and do not leave me alone in this prison, for I could not stand to be alone in this world, but with him only.

9 "You, my God, caused a sleep to come on him, and took a bone from his side, and restored the flesh in place of it, by your divine power.

10 " You took me, the bone, and make me a woman, bright like him, with heart, reason, speech, and in flesh like his own, and you made me look like him by your mercy and power.

11 "Lord, I and he are one and you, my God, are our Creator. You are the one who made us both in one day.

12 "So then, my God, give him life, so that he may be with me in this foreign land, while we live in it due to our sin.

13 "But if you will not give him