LC control no. | nr 93009523 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Uniform title heading | Life of Adam and Eve |
Variant(s) | Book of the life of Adam and Eve Adam and Eve, Book of the life of Scrolls of Adam & Eve Scrolls of Adam and Eve Books of Adam and Eve Vita Adae et Evae Apocalypse of Moses |
Other standard no. | 185416958 Q1810885 |
Form of work | Apocryphal Adam books Apocryphal books (Old Testament) |
Found in | The Scrolls of Adam & Eve, c1989: p. v (text existing in Slavonic, Latin & Greek versions) Interpreters' dict. of the Bible, c1962: v. 3, p. 961 (Life of Adam and Eve; pseudepigraphic book) supp., p. 710, etc. (The Life of Adam and Eve; versions in Greek, Latin, Slavonic, Georgian & Armenian) Encyc. Judaica, c1971 (Adam and Eve, Book of the life of) The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament ... 1913: v. 2, p. 123 (Books of Adam and Eve) The Old Testament pseudepigrapha, 1985: v. 2, p. 257, etc. (Life of Adam and Eve, Vita Adae et Evae, Apocalypse of Moses; the Greek text when first published called Apocalypse of Moses from wording of opening sentence) Wikipedia, August 10, 2021 (The Life of Adam and Eve, also known, in its Greek version, as the Apocalypse of Moses, is a Jewish apocryphal group of writings. It recounts the lives of Adam and Eve from after their expulsion from the Garden of Eden to their deaths; The ancient versions of the Life of Adam and Eve are: the Greek Apocalypse of Moses, the Latin Life of Adam and Eve, the Slavonic Life of Adam and Eve, the Armenian Penitence of Adam, the Georgian Book of Adam, and one or two fragmentary Coptic versions; They differ greatly in length and wording, but for the most part appear to be derived from a single source that has not survived. Each version contains some unique material, as well as variations and omissions) |