[Alamo-Girl]

I just finished the Apocalype of Adam. I recognized it, as I did the gospel of Thomas. So I went to the Pseudepigrapha texts, and sure enough, that is where I first read it!

The Pseudepigrapha however also includes the Midrashic book Life of Adam and Eve which is dated to the first century A.D. That particular book clearly describes Adam and Eve being in Paradise and includes sections which Satan blaming his banishment on Adam, Eve's recounting how it all happened, repentance, etc.

This is quite fascinating - especially the overlapping between the texts of Nag Hammadi and the Pseudepigrapha!

[Right Wing Professor]

Well, I thought you'd be interested. The sheer complexity of the religious ferment in Palestine from 100 BC to 100 AD is fascinating, and what's even more fascinating is how most of it has come to light 2000 years later, with the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi finds, etc..