Adam, books of (Hastings' Dictionary)

Rmnance, with ethical intent, accumulated around all the prominent worthies of t)r narrative, among both Jews and Christians; and, naturally, no one received more attention than Adam. This process of embellish- ing and ' iiniiroving' OT story began before NT times. The I'alm. speaks of a Bk of Ailam, and such legendary lore furnished suitable pabulum for Mohnmmedanism. The Apostolic Von.stitutions (vi. 16) mention an anoeryphal 'ASd^. Kpiphaniua (llivr. xxvi. 8) tells of a Gnostic work, lic.

rc/ntions of Adam, and the Decretum Gelasii prohibits Christians from reailing the two works, Penilnitiit Adw and I)c flvthiis Ailir.. The Cypriote Synccllus (Stli cent.) makes nuotations from a liiij 'Aiifn which closely resemlile the Bk of Jubilees. The ■Jewish Bk of Ailaiii is lost: but it probably furnished matter for still further clalioration in the 38 ADAMAH ADITHALM following Christian works which still survive. 1. The Ethiopic Bk. of Adnm, pub. by Dillmann, Gottingen, 1853 ; tr.

also by Malan, London, 1882. 2. A Syr. work, resembling the foregoing, entitled The Treasure-Cave, ed. by Bezold, Leipzig, 1883. 3. The 5i^T;£ris khI TroXircIa *A5a/t Kai E^as, ed. by Tischendorf, Apocalypses Apocrynhn;, 1866 ; and condensed by Rcinsch, Buch der Jubilden, pp. 468- 476. 4. ' Vita Adie et Eva',' a Lat. rendering of the same material, ed. by W. Meyer in Transactions oj Munich Academy, vol. xiv. 1878. 5.

The 'Testa- iiientum Adami,' which has been published by Kenan, Syriac text with French tr. in Journ. Asintique, 1853. 6. The sacred book of the Man- daites is called the Bk of Adam, but has little in common with the foregoing. Edd., Nor berg's, 1815 ; Petermann's, Berlin, 1867. LrrERATiTRK. — Fabriciue, Codex pscudepigr. Vet. Test. i. 1-94, ii. 1-43; Hort, art. 'Adam' in Siuith and Wace, Diet, of Chr, Bim.; Schiirer, HJP II. iii. 81, 147 1. ; Zockler, Apocr. det i T. 422.

3 ; Zunz, Die gottesd. Vortrdge der Juden, 1892, p. 136. J. T. Marshall. ADAMAH (ncix), Jos 19", 'red lands.'— A city of Naphtali mentioned next to Chinnereth. Prob- ably the ruin 'Adinah on the plateau north of Bethshean. See iSlKP vol. i. sh. vi. C. R. CO.VDER. ADAMANT is twice (Ezk 3», Zee 7") used in AV and RV as tr.

of I'n^ shdmlr, which is else- where rendered either ' brier' (Is 5" ^^■^■^Qi» 10" 27' 32'^) or ' diamond ' (Jer 17')- Diamond, which arose fiom adamant by a variety of spelling (adamant or adimant, then diamant or diamond), lias displaced a. as the name of the precious stone, a. being now used rhetorically to express extreme hardness. See under art. STONES (Precious). '.\5ifms occurs in LXX at Am 7'- "'■"as tr. of ■^jn ' plummet ' ; this is the origin and meaning of a.

in its only occurrence in Apocr., Sir 16' AV. See Plummet. J. Hastings. ADAMI-NEKEB (ai^sri "Dik), Jos ^^^ 'red lands the pass.' — A city of Naphtali. It is duabtful if the names should not be divided (see Nekeb). The site is probably at the present village ^cJ-iDdmie/i on the plateau north-east of Tabor, where the ba.saltic soil is reddish. The site of Nekeb (Seiy^deh) is not far off. See SWP vol. i. sh. vi. C. R. CONDER. ADAR (^^x Ezr 6'», Est 3'- " 8" O'- "f-, 1 Mac 7"- >, 2 Mac lo"".

Est 10" 13" 16^).— The 12th month in the Witer Jewish Calendar. See Time.