Book of Adam

by Cyrus Adler

Overview

Adam, the handiwork of the Lord, lived with Eve in the Garden of Eden, which was situated in the East. Their food, which they also distributed to the lower animals, consisted of the fruit of the trees in the garden, the only nourishment then allowed to living beings. For their protection two angels were set apart, known as or the partakers of the majesty, called in Latin virtutes, from virtus, corresponding to kabod. But one day when the guarding angels had ascended to heaven to sing their hymn to the Lord, Satan thought the time opportune to carry out his evil designs against Adam. Satan hated Adam, for he regarded him as the cause of his fall. After God had created man, He ordered all the angels to prostrate themselves before Adam, but Satan rebelled against God's command, despite the direct bidding of Michael "to worship the image of YHW", and answered proudly: "If God be angry against me, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God". Whereupon God "cast him out from heaven with all his host of rebellious angels".

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016696874
Publisher:	Shamrock Eden Publishing
Publication date:	04/27/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	100 KB

About the Author

Adler was born in Van Buren, Arkansas, a graduate of University of Pennsylvania in 1883 and gained a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1887, where he taught Semitic languages from 1884 to 1893. He was employed by the Smithsonian Institution for a number of years, with a focus on archaeology and Semitics, serving as the Librarian from 1892-1905. He was a founder of the Jewish Welfare Board, and an editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia, and part of the committee that translated the Jewish Publication Society version of the Hebrew Bible published in 1917. At the end of World War I, he participated in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. His many scholarly writings include articles on comparative religion, Assyriology, and Semitic philology.