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The Apostolic Age · c. AD 1–100

The Life of Adam and Eve

Apocalypse of Moses

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What it is

What Adam and Eve did after the garden: the penance standing in the Jordan and the Tigris, Satan's account of why he refused to worship a creature made of clay, and Eve's deathbed confession to her children of how it all happened.

Why it lasted

Satan's fall through refusing to bow to Adam enters Christian and later Islamic tradition from here. The oil of mercy Seth seeks became the legend of the wood of the cross.

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Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

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