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What Is Life of Adam and Eve?
1st or 2nd Century
Life of Adam and Eve retells the story of Genesis 3, in which Adam and Eve are tempted and ultimately expelled from the garden of Eden. Popular among Christians, this work has a complex textual history and was reworked a number of times in different languages. It survives in Greek and Latin versions, although most scholars agree that these versions are based on a Hebrew original composed in Judaea in the first or second century CE.
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Satan’s Rebellion and Expulsion from Heaven
Life of Adam and Eve 12–16
And the devil sighed and said, “O Adam, all my enmity and envy and sorrow concern you, since because of you I was expelled and deprived of my glory which I had in the heavens in the midst of angels…
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What Are the Pseudepigrapha?
ca. 200 BCE–200 CE