Apocalypse Of Moses
Life of Adam and Eve, also known in its Greek version under the name is a collection of Jewish writings Pseudepigrapha.
Summary |
The text survives in four or five major reviews, none of which is original:
- Aramaic version: considered lost. No trace found in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
- Greek version (Apocalypse of Moses) is obviously a translation from Aramaic .
- Latin version (Vita Adae): translation of a Greek source different from the one that survives.
- Armenian version 1 (The Penitence of Adam): edition compiled from three manuscripts. The content of Penance of Adam Armenian includes both penance in the rivers (not found in the Greek version) and the story of the fall (not found in the Latin version) .
- Armenian version 2 (The Book of Adam): simple translation of the Greek version.
- Slavonic version: clearly a translation of the Greek Apocalypse of Moses .
- Georgian version (The Book of Adam and Eve): several insertions by Christian scribes .
- Coptic version: very fragmentary, considered as a translation from Greek or Aramaic.
Content
The legend tells of the life of Adam and Eve , their expulsion from the Garden of Eden until they die. The myth tells the story of the biblical fall of man as perceived by Eve. Satan rebelled after God commanded him to worship Adam. Then, turning into "an angel of light," Satan is working with the serpent to deceive Eve, and Adam and Eve expelled from paradise. Later, after the death of Adam, the archangel Michael takes Adam's body for burial in "the paradise of the third heaven" and is promised to Adam and all his descendants that they will take part in the resurrection of the dead.
Influences
Two references to the Apocalypse of Moses are in the Second Epistle to the Corinthians : "Satan disguised as an angel of light" (11:14), and "paradise" of the "third heaven" (12:2-3). The context may indicate highly ironic that this legend was presented to the Church by its enemies, "these apostles par excellence" (11:5, 12:11) .
The Cave of Treasures is an apocryphal text written in language by Syrian Ephrem the Syrian (306-373). An important part of the content comes from the Apocalypse of Moses. The manuscript that exists today is dated to the sixth century or later.
References
- MD Johnson, Life of Adam and Eve, new translation and introduction in JH Charlesworth, The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, 1985 ( ISBN 0385188137 )
- http://www.ccel.org/c/charles/otpseudepig/apcmose.htm English translation online LSA Wells, The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in Franais, Volume II Pseudepigrapha edited by RH Charles, Clarendon Press , 1913.
- Stone ME, The Penitence of Adam, CSCSO 429-30, Leuven, 1981.
- Jajic, translation into Latin in the Annals of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna, 1893
- French translation of JP Mahe, The Book of Adam Georgian Vita Adae in Studies in Gnosticism and Hellenistic Religions, ed. R. van den Broek and MJ Vermaseren, Leiden, 1981
- Victor P. Furnish, 2 Corinthians, Anchor Bible Commentary, 1984
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