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What happens to Adam and Eve when the garden gates close behind them?
The Forgotten Books of Eden gathers ancient Jewish and Christian writings that stand outside most Bibles. In the First and Second Books of Adam and Eve, the couple face life beyond Paradise. These stories follow their hardship, grief and search for redemption, giving readers a vivid glimpse of how ancient writers imagine the world after Eden.
The Book of the Secrets of Enoch turns toward the heavens, while the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs brings you to the deathbeds of Jacob’s sons. The Psalms of Solomon adds poetry to this varied collection. Together, these separate works explore questions that ancient readers bring to Scripture, with each text offering its own answers.
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- Life beyond the garden Follow Adam and Eve as these tales imagine their struggle to survive outside Paradise.
- Enoch and the heavens Explore a text that tells of Enoch being lifted through the heavens.
- A father’s final words Hear Jacob’s sons address their children with moral struggles, wisdom and prophetic visions.
- Poetry beside sacred legend Discover the Psalms of Solomon alongside stories with very different tones and concerns.
- Many voices around Scripture See how unnamed Jewish and Christian writers fill gaps in familiar biblical narratives.
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Readers who love Genesis retellings, early Christian storytelling, and tales of what Adam and Eve did next will enjoy this book. Those drawn to vivid scenes, dramatic prayers, and a contest between God and a scheming Satan will also find it appealing.
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- God chooses where the exiles will live
- The cave brings darkness and a long promise
- Despair leads to the first offering
- Satan comes dressed as light
- Fire, falling rock and the price of forty days
- Hunger, clothing and bread become sacred
- Marriage, birth and the sons of Adam
- Cain and Abel grow apart
- Deceit is the enemy, and mercy is the answer
- How the book is told and how it has been used
Who’s who
- AdamThe first man, driven from the garden, who learns by trial to pray, to doubt disguises and to wait for God's promise.
- EveAdam's wife, grieving and brave, who takes the blame for the fall and keeps praying beside him through every trial.
- SatanThe fallen angel who schemes against the couple, appearing as an angel, an elder or a woman to draw them from God.
- CainTheir firstborn son, hard of heart, who grudges his brother's accepted offering and plots against him.
- AbelThe younger son, meek and devout, who loves fasting and offering and becomes the target of Cain's jealousy.
- SethA later son, fair and prayerful, who resists a false angel as a child and leads a pure line on the mountain.
- JaredA leader of Seth's descendants, who guards the cave and the fathers' bodies and warns his people to stay on the mountain.
- The Word of GodThe divine voice that raises, corrects and comforts Adam and Eve and repeats the promise of rescue.
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The Forgotten Books of Eden
by Various early Christian and Jewish authors
Cast out of Eden, Adam and Eve shelter in a dark cave and face Satan's disguises again and again.
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What happens to two people after the gate of paradise closes behind them? Genesis gives a few verses.
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God chooses where the exiles will live
The story opens with geography. God plants the garden in the far east, and a clear sea lies to its north. Its water is so pure that anyone who bathes in it forgets his sins. God made it for the righteous to bathe in after returning to their flesh at the last day.
So God does not place Adam on the northern side. There he would forget his fault and lose the weight of his punishment. The southern side is closed too, because a north wind would carry the scent of the garden trees and console him too easily.
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What is The Forgotten Books of Eden about?
It gathers ancient writings left out of most Bibles. The Adam and Eve narrative follows the first couple after their exile from Eden, through darkness, hunger, Satan's disguises, the birth of Cain, Abel and Seth, and the line of Seth.
What is the Cave of Treasures?
It is the rock cave on the western side of the garden where God places Adam and Eve. The gold, incense and myrrh are kept there, and later the bodies of the righteous fathers are laid in it.
What does the promise of five and a half days mean?
God tells Adam he will send his Word to save him after five and a half days. God explains that this means five thousand five hundred years, and the book treats it as the time until a saviour comes.
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