![]() Soon after they had sinned they heard the trumpet-blast ( shofar) of Michael ("B. Adam, too, after he had eaten of the forbidden fruit, experienced a sense of loss and cried out: "What hast thou done? Thou hast removed me from the glory of the Lord" (Ab. xxi.), and at the same moment she became aware that she had been undone and "had lost the garment of righteousness in which she had been clothed" (Gen. But the serpent had infused lust into the fruit, and when Eve had eaten of it the sexual desire awoke in her (Slavonic Book of Baruch, xcvii. ![]() 7)-which the serpent had shaken for her (Ab. After some pleading the serpent succeeded in persuading Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge-a fig-tree (Gen. And Satan spoke to the serpent: "Be my instrument, and through thy mouth will I utter a word which shall enable thee to seduce man" (Pirḳe R. ![]() 52 a) selected the serpent for his tool, as it was not only the most subtle of all animals, but also very similar to man, for it had been endowed with hands and legs like him (Gen. Whereupon God "cast him out from heaven with all his host of rebellious angels" (Slavonic Book of Enoch, xxxi. After God had created man, He ordered all the angels to prostrate themselves before Adam, but Satan rebelled against God's command, despite the direct bidding of Michael "to worship the image of YHW" ( ), and answered proudly: "If God be angry against me, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God" (compare Isa. Satan hated Adam, for he regarded him as the cause of his fall. 91 b), Satan thought the time opportune to carry out his evil designs against Adam. But one day when the guarding angels had ascended to heaven to sing their hymn ( ) to the Lord (Ḥul. 60 b) as or the partakers of the majesty ( ) ( kabod), called in Latin virtutes, from virtus, corresponding to kabod. For their protection two angels were set apart (Ḥag. 5), consisted of the fruit of the trees in the garden, the only nourishment then allowed to living beings (Sanh. Their food, which they also distributed to the lower animals (Gen. ![]() i., end), lived with Eve in the Garden of Eden, which was situated in the East (Book of Enoch, xxxii. ![]() According to these apocryphal works and to the Eastern and Western forms of the Apocalypsis, the Jewish portion of the Book of Adam must have read somewhat as follows (the parallels in apocryphal and rabbinical literature are placed in parentheses): Adam in the Garden of Eden.Īdam, the handiwork of the Lord (Ab. It is possible to prove that the apocryphas, Apocalypsis Mosis- as Tischendorf, following a copyist's erroneous inscription, called the book-and Vita Adæ et Evæ, and to a certain degree even their Slavonic, Syriac, Ethiopic, and Arabic offshoots, are of identical Jewish origin. There can be no doubt, however, that there existed at an early date, perhaps even before the destruction of the Second Temple, a collection of legends of Adam and Eve which have been partially preserved, not in their original language, but somewhat changed. 136) is erroneous, as appears upon an inspection of the passage in 'Ab. The Talmud says nothing about the existence of a Book of Adam, and Zunz's widely accepted assertion to the contrary ("G. ![]()
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