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The ''Life of Adam and Eve'', also known, in its Greek version, as the ''Apocalypse of Moses'', is a Jewish pseudepigraphical group of writings. It recounts the lives of Adam and Eve from after their expulsion from the Garden of Eden to their deaths. It provides more detail about the Fall of Man, including Eve's version of the story. Satan explains that he rebelled when God commanded him to bow down to Adam. After Adam dies, he and all his descendants are promised a resurrection. 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'',〔French Translation: J.P. Mahé ''Le Livre d'Adam géorgienne de la Vita Adae'' in ''Studies in Gnosticism and Hellenistic Religions'', ed. R. van den Broek and M. J. Vermaseren. Leiden 1981〕 and one or two fragmentary Coptic versions. These texts are usually named as ''Primary Adam Literature'' to distinguish them from subsequent related texts, such as the Cave of Treasures that includes what appears to be extracts. They differ greatly in length and wording, but for the most part are derived from a single source that has not survived, and contain (except for some obvious insertions) no undeniably Christian teaching. Each version contains some unique material, as well as variations and omissions. While the surviving versions were composed from the early 3rd to the 5th century,〔 the literary units in the work are considered to be older and predominantly of Jewish origin.〔 There is wide agreement that the original was composed in a Semitic language〔 in the 1st century AD/CE.〔 ==Themes== The main theological issue in these texts is that of the consequences of the Fall of Man, of which sickness and death are mentioned. Other themes include the exaltation of Adam in the Garden, the fall of Satan, the anointing with the oil of the Tree of Life, and a combination of majesty and anthropomorphism in the figure of God, involving numerous merkabahs and other details that show a relationship with 2 Enoch. While the idea of resurrection of the dead is present, there is no idea of Messianism, a fact that lends strong support to the theory of a Jewish origin. The ''Life of Adam and Eve'' is also important in the study of the early Seth traditions.〔A. Frederik, J. Klijn ''Seth in Jewish, Christian and Gnostic Literature'' ISBN 90-04-05245-3 (1977) pag 16ff〕 Interesting parallels can be found with some New Testament passages, such as the mention of the Tree of Life in . The more striking resemblances are with ideas in the Second Epistle to the Corinthians: Eve as the source of sin (), Satan disguising himself as an angel of light (), the location of the paradise in the third heaven (). No direct relationship can be determined between the New Testament and the ''Life of Adam and Eve'', but the similarities suggest that Paul the Apostle and the author of 2 Enoch were near contemporaries of the original author of this work and moved in the same circle of ideas.〔J.H. Charlesworth ''the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Vol 2'' ISBN 0-385-18813-7 (1985) pag 255〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Life of Adam and Eve」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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