Adam (sources)
Survey of ancient sources on Adam.
Overview
Ancient Jewish Sources
Genesis
Genesis 2:20 (NIV) -- So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
Genesis 3:17 (NIV) -- To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:20 (NIV) -- Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
Genesis 3:21 (NIV) -- The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
Genesis 4:1 (NIV) -- Adam lay with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.
Genesis 4:25 (NIV) -- Adam lay with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, "God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him."
Genesis 5:1-5 (NIV) -- 1 This is the written account of Adam's line. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. [2] He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them "man. " 3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. [4] After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. [5] Altogether, Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.
Book of Hosea
Hosea 6:7 (NIV) -- Like Adam, they have broken the covenant--they were unfaithful to me there.
Books of Chronicles
1 Chr 1:1 (NIV) -- ...Adam, Seth, Enosh...
2 Baruch
- 4:3-6 - The New Jerusalem was shown to Adam
- 17:1-18:2 - No correspondence between happiness (righteousness) and length of life.
- 23:2-5 -
- 48:42-47
- 54:15-19
- 56:5-16
Early Christian Sources
Gospel of Luke
Luke 3:38 -- ...Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God...
Letter to the Romans
Romans 5:12 -- Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man [i.e. Adam], and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned
Romans 5:14 -- Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come.
1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 15:22 (NIV) -- For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
1 Corinthians 15:45 (NIV) -- So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
1 Timothy
1 Timothy 2:13 (NIV) -- For Adam was formed first, then Eve, [14] and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
Letter of Jude
Jude.1.14 It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,