| Sumario: | This article reports on the apocryphal life of Adam and Eve. The story of Adam and Eve, as one encounters it in genesis 2-5, presents many of the great dramatic themes of the human condition: conjugal love, fratricidal hate, crime and punishment, birth and death. The original Life of Adam and Eve was probably written in Greek, although surviving versions are represented in whole or in part in six languages, namely Greek, Latin, Armenian, Georgian, Slavonic, and Coptic. Secondary variants and related literature exist in most of the medieval vernaculars of Europe, including Middle English, and related retellings of the life of Adam and Eve survive in Arabic and medieval Hebrew as well.
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