The Life of Adam and Eve in Greek

This SBL Press reprint of an original Brill volume contains the first critical edition of the Life of Adam and Eve in Greek based on all available manuscripts. In the introduction the history of previous research is summarized and the extant manuscripts are presented. Next comes a description of the grammatical characteristics of the manuscripts' texts followed by a detailed study of the genealogical relationships between them resulting in a reconstruction of the writing's history of transmission in Greek. On the basis of all this information the Greek text of the Life of Adam and Eve in its earliest attainable stage is established. The text edition is accompanied by a full critical apparatus in which all relevant evidence from the manuscripts is recorded. Several indices complete this volume.