The Books of Adam and Eve

by R.H. Charles, E.C. Marsh (Editor)

From The Apocrypha and Pseudeipgrapha of the Old Testament
by R. H. Charles, Oxford Press. 1913

Scanned, edited, formatted, and published by E.C. Marsh © 2011


The Book of Adam and Eve or the Apocalypse of MOSES
The First Book of Adam and Eve
The Second Book of Adam and Eve
The Life of Adam and Eve (Slovic)

168 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 2, 2011

About the author

Robert Henry Charles (1855–1931) was an Irish biblical scholar and theologian. He left parochial work in 1889 to devote himself to biblical research and became the greatest authority of his time in matters of Jewish eschatology and apocrypha. He became a canon at Westminster Abbey in 1913 and archdeacon there in 1919. His books include Eschatology (1913, 2nd ed), Between the Old and New Testaments (1914), and his edition of The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament. (1913). He is known particularly for English translations of apocryphal and pseudepigraphal works, and editions including Jubilees (1895), the Book of Enoch (1906), and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (1908) which have been widely used. Among his other publications are The Apocalypse (1920), Divorce and Nullity (1927), and The Resurrection of Man (1930). He was educated at the Belfast Academy, Queen's College, Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin. He gained a D.D. and became Professor of Biblical Greek at Trinity College.

Reviews

[Tom James · Rating 2 out of 5]

In this embellished account of the Adam and Eve story, the first man and woman fall several times. After the eating of the forbidden fruit and subsequent expulsion from the garden, God sends them to live in a cave, where they are instructed to fast and pray for 40 days. Adam and Eve keep getting tricked by Satan, who appears to them in different forms in order to entice them out of the cave and disobey God. Sadly, the two protagonists listen to Satan frequently and get chastised by God afterward. Neither Adam nor Eve appear very bright in this story, but perhaps that is the point. Sin is foolish, but humans commit it anyway. This account has the godly line of Seth eventually being drawn down from the holy mountain to intermarry with the wicked line of Seth, which eventually leads to the downfall of most of the human race and to the flood. An interesting though sometimes tediously repetitious) attempt to fill in the gaps left by the Genesis account.

[Cobien · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Books of Adam and Eve: This book touched my soul, deeply, the anguish and sadness experienced by Adam en Eve after being banished from the Garden of Eden. To have disappointed our Heavenly Father so much, to not be able to have daily wanderings with Him in the garden, to not be close to Him.

Incredibly sad