The Book of Adam or "Contradiction of Adam and Eve" is a romance made up of Oriental fables. It was first translated from the Ethiopian version into German by August Dillmann , "Das christliche Adambuch" (Göttingen, 1853), and into English by Solomon Caesar Malan , "The Book of Adam and Eve" (London, 1882).
The "Pénitence d'Adam", or "Testament d'Adam", is composed of some Syria n fragments translated by Ernest Renan (Journal asiatique, 1853, II, pp. 427-469). "The Penitence of Adam and Eve" has been published in Latin by Wilhelm Meyer in the "Treatises of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences", XIV, 3 (Munich, 1879).
"The Books of the Daughters of Adam", mentioned in the catalogue of Pope Saint Gelasius in 495 -496, who identifies it with the '' Book Of Jubilees '', or "Little Genesis".
The "Testament of Our First Parents", cited by Anastasius The Sinaïte , LXXXIX, col. 967.
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The scripture of the Mandaean religion, '' Ginza Rba '', is also titled ''The Book of Adam''.
