Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The First and Second Books of Adam and Eve: Book 1 in the Forgotten Book of Eden Series
    The First and Second Books of Adam and Eve: Book 1 in the Forgotten Book of Eden Series
    The First and Second Books of Adam and Eve: Book 1 in the Forgotten Book of Eden Series
    Ebook237 pages3 hours

    The First and Second Books of Adam and Eve: Book 1 in the Forgotten Book of Eden Series

    By Unknown Author

    5/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    The two books contained in this volume are considered by many scholars to be part of the "Pseudepigrapha" and form part of “The Forgotten Books of Eden” edited by Rutherford H. Platt, Jr. These books are a written account of what happened to Adam and Eve in the days of after they were cast out of the Garden of Eden.

    The First Book of Adam and Eve details the life and times of Adam and Eve in the period immediately following their expulsion from the Garden of Eden to the time that Cain slays his brother Abel.
    It tells of Adam and Eve's first dwelling in the Cave of Treasures; their trials and temptations; and of Satan's many apparitions to them. It also tells of the birth of Cain, Abel, and their twin sisters; and of Cain's love for his beautiful twin sister, Luluwa, whom Adam and Eve wished to be joined to Abel

    The Second Book of Adam and Eve gives an account of the life and times of Cain and his twin Sister Luluwa after they went away until the time that Enoch was taken by God.

    The "Pseudepigrapha" is a collection of historical biblical works that are considered to be fiction. Because of this, this book was not included in the compilation of the Christian Bible. Although considered to be Pseudepigrapha by some, it carries significant meaning and insight into events of that time.

    In order to put these two books into perspective, one has to ask how, and why, these writings have survived through the centuries and if they are as unsubstantial as many righteous scholars claim them to be?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateApr 29, 2017
    ISBN9781909302075
    The First and Second Books of Adam and Eve: Book 1 in the Forgotten Book of Eden Series
    Author

    Unknown Author

    Dr. Sam Stuart is a physiotherapist and a research Fellow within the Balance Disorders Laboratory, OHSU. His work focuses on vision, cognition and gait in neurological disorders, examining how technology-based interventions influence these factors. He has published extensively in world leading clinical and engineering journals focusing on a broad range of activities such as real-world data analytics, algorithm development for wearable technology and provided expert opinion on technology for concussion assessment for robust player management. He is currently a guest editor for special issues (sports medicine and transcranial direct current stimulation for motor rehabilitation) within Physiological Measurement and Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, respectively.

    Read more from Unknown Author

    Related to The First and Second Books of Adam and Eve

    Titles in the series (5)

    View More
    View More

    Related ebooks

    Christianity For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Fallen Ones

      Jun 11, 2019

      The Fallen Ones
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Hidden Origins of Mankind

      Nov 12, 2019

      The Hidden Origins of Mankind
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Dead Sea Scrolls

      Dec 5, 2019

      The Dead Sea Scrolls
      2 min read

    • Article

      Sex in the Garden

      Sep 14, 2017

      Sex in the Garden
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Devil ’s In The Detail

      Feb 18, 2020

      The Devil ’s In The Detail
      4 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Oct 10, 2022

      Books
      6 min read

    • Article

      Around The World In 100 Plants

      Oct 26, 2022

      Simon Barnes (Simon & Schuster, £30) WE have become used, in recent years, to the convention of 100 short essays as a means of raising the reader’s eyebrows and setting away a never-ending series of big ideas from the starting point of an everyday o

      5 min read

    • Article

      Twelve Ways to Resurrect the Dead, Which Is to Say: To Write

      Dec 14, 2022

      1. The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day (Chronicle Books, 2015) translated by Ogden Goelet, Raymond Faulkner, Carol A. R. Andrews, J. Daniel Gunther, James Wasserman. On not dying a second time. Nor losing your heart in the g

      5 min read

    • Article

      Good Vibrations

      Mar 4, 2024

      Good Vibrations
      6 min read

    • Article

      Leaving Society

      Jul 27, 2020

      Leaving Society
      5 min read

    • Article

      Encounters

      Jul 9, 2020

      Encounters
      5 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The Editor

      Apr 10, 2024

      Letters To The Editor
      3 min read

    • Article

      Why We’re Drawn Into Darkness

      Oct 10, 2019

      Robert Macfarlane grew up obsessed twith climbing mountains and nearly died on several occasions as he scaled some of the world’s high peaks. He found a safer way to indulge his alpine passions, writing about the mystique of mountains. As someone dra

      6 min read

    • Article

      Books

      May 22, 2023

      Books
      6 min read

    • Article

      Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER

      Jun 8, 2023

      Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER
      6 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Nov 3, 2022

      When I read David Hambling’s article ‘Listening to the voice within’ [FT423:16], I became conscious that my ‘inner voice’ was reading the piece aloud in my mind. Obviously I’ve had this realisation before; I decided to ask my wife if she also had an

      10 min read

    • Article

      Men of God?

      Dec 19, 2021

      You could say Covid came at a good time for Brian Tamaki. Membership at Destiny Church, of which he is the founder and leader, has been in decline for the past 20 years, peaking at 5000 in 2003, falling to 3000 by 2012, and dwindling further since. V

      6 min read

    • Article

      Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER

      Mar 16, 2023

      Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER
      6 min read

    • Article

      Tricks Of The Trade

      Jan 16, 2022

      Tricks Of The Trade
      4 min read

    • Article

      Medieval Magic At Work

      Apr 16, 2020

      Medieval Magic At Work
      1 min read

    • Article

      The Haunted Generation

      Dec 2, 2021

      The Haunted Generation
      6 min read

    • Article

      Reading In The Anthropocene

      Jun 16, 2021

      Reading In The Anthropocene
      11 min read

    • Article

      Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER

      Jul 7, 2021

      Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER
      8 min read

    • Article

      Radio Valerie Grove

      Aug 23, 2023

      ‘Beyond the Fringe first fell upon London like a sweet refreshing rain on 10 May 1961,’ wrote Michael Frayn. ‘That night, the theatre came of age,’ wrote Kenneth Tynan. Bernard Levin called it ‘brilliant, adult, hard-boiled, accurate, merciless, witt

      2 min read

    • Article

      Books Of The Dead

      May 12, 2022

      Books Of The Dead
      1 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The First and Second Books of Adam and Eve

    5/5

    2 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      Many puzzles seem solved. I feel the blanks were filled in especially for those who desire to understand what "the sons of God came unto the daughters of men" meant in the Bible.

    Book preview

    The First and Second Books of Adam and Eve - Unknown Author

    cent]

    Acknowledgements

    The Publisher acknowledges the work that

    Rutherford H. Platt, Jr.

    did in editing this unique volume

    in a time well before any electronic media was in use.

    * * * * * * *

    33% of the publisher’s profit

    from the sale from this book

    will be donated to charities.

    * * * * * * *

    YESTERDAY’S BOOKS

    Raising funds for

    TODAY’S CHARITIES

    Contents

    PREFACE

    TODAY the medley of outward life has made a perplexity of inward life. We moderns have ruffled our old incertitudes to an absurd point--incertitudes that are older than theology.

    Not without justification have priests mounted altars for generations and cried, Oh my soul, why dost thou trouble me?

    We are active, restless both in body and mind. Curiosity has replaced blind faith. We go groping, peering, searching, scornful of dogmas, back, further back to sources. And just as the physicist thrills at the universes he discovers as he works inward in the quest of his electrons, so the average man exults in his apprehension of fundamentals of psychology. New cults spring up, attesting to the Truth--as they see it--countless fleets of Theism, Buchmanism, Theosophy, Bahai'ism, etc., sail under brightly colored flags; and Atheism is flaunting itself on the horizon.

    Almost the passengers have turned pilots. Everyman is thinking for himself.

    The findings here--in this strange volume--bring the reader into a large inland sea, cut off from the traffic and the tempest that have sprung up in the West; and untouched by the crosscurrents of dogmas and presumptions that have cluttered historic centuries. Here is virgin water that gushes, troubled by abysmal forces only, out of the very earth itself.

    Whence are these writings--these emotions--these profound pages of wisdom? You might as well inquire, whence is human nature? The fact is--they are. It isn't as though you can compare this literature with any other, as you might compare the French Romanticists with the Russian school. If you do so, this man may say it is too fantastic; that man, it is too coarse; the other man, it is too out of date! And they straightway lose all sight of the fact that it is simply fundamental.

    To be sure scholars will argue, and inquire. They would find the exact history; the shape of this or that Greek stem; they would set the opinion of this erudite authority against the opinion of that. It is right that they, as scholars, should do so. It is right that the average man who is not a scholar should also do so-if he wants to; and should not have to do so, if he does not want to.

    It is, however, only just to pay a tribute to scholarship which has preceded and made possible this book. The publishers are indispensably indebted to The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha edited by R. H. Charles, D. Litt., D. D.; The Odes and Psalms of Solomon by Dr. Rendel Harris; The Book of Adam and Eve by the Rev. S. C. Malan, D. D., published in England in 1882.

    * * * *

    It is appropriate to leave this book in your hands with the invocation of San Peladan, which Conrad has translated for us. San Pelandan believed in astrology, spirits of the air, elves, nymphs and everything that is deliciously fantastic. However, he did say:

    "O Nature, indulgent Mother, forgive! Open your arms to the son, prodigal and weary.

    I have attempted to tear asunder the veil you have hung to conceal from us the pain of life, and I have been wounded by the mystery. . . . Œdipus, half way to finding the word of the enigma, young Faust, regretting already the simple life, the life of the heart, I come back to you repentant, reconciled, O gentle deceiver!

    * * * *

    Adam and Eve; Solomon; Pharaoh; Aristeas; Ahikar; and the Twelve Intellectual Giants--we come back to you.

    R. H. P. JR.

    New York, August I, 1927.

    INTRODUCTION TO

    THE FORGOTTEN BOOKS OF EDEN

    By WILLIAM N. GUTHRIE, D.D.

    Rector of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie.

    AN American Indian's Song is his very own. No other man can sing it without his explicit permission. It is impregnate with his aura. It is not in our sense, however, property. It is believed to invest magically the singer with the mood whence it proceeded, and must, therefore, merge in some way the performer's identity with that of the originator's. To sing another's song is an invasion of his personality, a sort of spiritual piracy involving sacrilege.

    When last year in Arcady and Andritzena, I induced primitive shepherds to sing and play for me lustily all sorts of occasional songs and rituals, they refused to do a burial chant, most positively. For to perform one would surely cause a death in the house.

    A little reflection on these two paragraphs may perhaps, make the reader realize that authorship was once a thing of great hazards. If one had something great and new to say, and wanted it to circulate widely, one would naturally prefer anonymity.

    Indeed, by the Hebrews a story was popularly presumed to have its hero for its author. Moses wrote the account of his own death. Deuteronomy was of course, his own work, although obviously intended to alter the traditional religion. Jonah wrote the little novel about himself. David was the author of the Psalms because reported to have instituted the first temple choir, and as a lad to have played the harp soothing the nerves of King Saul. When an author for the book of Job was wanted, though the whole discussion of the work proves it was written to refute the Wisdom literature which by tradition began with the Proverbs of Solomon, Moses was chosen as a suitable author!

    So for centuries among the Jews, writers sought to shelter themselves behind the names of the great dead. In this they were guilty of no fraud. They imagined what Solomon or Enoch would say, or sing, upon a particular theme under given circumstances. It was not really they themselves, but their Solomon, their Enoch, Solomon or Enoch in them, who uttered the new prophesies or temple praises.

    Thus arose that body of literature, called by modern scholars, Pseudepigrapha, that is, writings erroneously, unhistorically, and yet sincerely, ascribed to heroic figures summed from the vasty deep by a self-denying imagination, eager to alter man's belief and custom, to interpret his hope and sorrow, without personal gain or fame, and also, may one add, without the deterrent of persecution to arrest free utterance!

    Now it is a foolish modern prejudice against an ancient piece of literature that its author veiled his person in this fashion. The only question is: Was the writing of inherent value? Did it exercise influence?

    It is not too much to say that no modern can intelligently understand the New Testament,

    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1