• The Book of Adam or "Contradiction of Adam and Eve", denigrated as "a romance made up of Oriental fables" by the 1913 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia
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  . It was first translated from the Ethiopia
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  n version into German
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   by August Dillmann
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  , and into English by Solomon Caesar Malan
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• The "Pénitence d'Adam", or "Testament d'Adam", composed of some Syria
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  n fragments translated by Ernest Renan
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  . "The Penitence of Adam and Eve" has been published in Latin
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   by Wilhelm Meyer
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• "The Books of the Daughters of Adam", mentioned in the catalogue of Pope Saint Gelasius
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   in 495
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  -496, who identifies it with the Book of Jubilees, or "Little Genesis".
• The "Testament of Our First Parents", cited by Anastasius the Sinaïte
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• The Book of Adam (Adamgirk) by Arakel of Siwnik (Arakel Sunetsi), a book of poetry on Adam and Eve. It was written in 1403, and first published in 1799. It was first translated to English by Michael E. Stone
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See also

• The scripture of the Mandaean religion, Ginza Rba
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  , is also titled The Book of Adam.
• Apocalypse of Adam
  Apocalypse of Adam
  The Apocalypse of Adam discovered in 1945 as part of the Nag Hammadi library is a Gnostic work written in Coptic. It has no necessary references to Christianity and it is accordingly debated whether it is a Christian Gnostic work or an example of Jewish Gnosticism...
  
  
• Life of Adam and Eve
  Life of Adam and Eve
  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...
  
  
• Testament of Adam
  Testament of Adam
  The Testament of Adam is a Christian pseudepigraphical work extant in Syriac and Arabic. The earliest manuscript is dated to the 6th century, but the text is 4th century AD in origin, probably composed in Edessa...
  
  
• Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan
  Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan
  The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan is a Christian pseudepigraphical work found in Ge'ez, translated from an Arabic original and thought to date from the 5th or 6th century AD....
  
  

Source

• "The Books of Adam" by George J. Reid. The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 1, 1907.