Did Adam write the account of the Creation of Eve, the Fall and his sons Cain and Abel? The Origin of Genesis. From the Evangelical Catholic Study Bible:
Genesis 5:1 THIS is The Book [literally: “written narrative” (inscribed tablet)]* of The Histories* of Adam. In the day that God [Elohim]*created man, He made him in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female and blessed them and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
*The Book (inscribed tablet): Besides the fact that Peter confidently asserts there were prophets and their witness to the truth “from the very beginning of the world”(Acts 3:21), the Hebrew word sepher here means “written narrative,” and is so translated by F. Delitzsch. Despite this, most in the field of “Biblical scholarship” from the mid 1800’s into the 20th century, recklessly ignoring this Biblical evidence of writing from the very earliest human civilization, spun an entire system of Biblical criticism by which they rendered everything in the five books of Moses as a patchwork of much later written renditions of myths and stories that had evolved over the many centuries by word of mouth. When solid extra-Biblical evidence proved the scholars were dead wrong, it was such an embarrassment that most simply ignored the evidence and went on their way continuing to peddle their outdated notions. This written record of Adam (Ch. 3-5:1) could have been completed as early as 3500 BC. P. J. Wiseman cites examples of original writings discovered in Egypt to be from 3000 BC, and perhaps the oldest known stone document dating to 3300 BC used a “line picture” form that predates cuneiform. New Discoveries, p. 35-36. For an understandable but scholarly review of Wiseman, see: www.specialtyinterests.net/Toledoth Next evidence of one Sacred Canon: Exodus 1:1; 17:14; and Joshua 24:26
*histories: See the Introduction to Genesis.
*Elohim: Note that when Adam speaks of God the Creator, before the Covenant with man, he does not use Jehovah (Lord), but Elohim (God). These accounts in Genesis are not stories written later by groups who had different names for God, as the liberal scholars continue to maintain!
From the Introduction to Genesis in the Evangelical Catholic Study Bible:
The origin and authorship of Genesis: The British scholar P. J. Wiseman, C.B.E., in his New Discoveries in Babylonia about Genesis, thoroughly demolishes the old liberal modernist view of the late origins of Genesis and the JEDP “documentary theory” of the Graf-Wellhausen school of “higher criticism,” and offers conclusive evidence that Genesis is a collection of histories written by those who actually lived the events beginning with Adam himself. Wiseman proves that the phrase, “These are the generations of . . .” found throughout the book, denotes the personal history of the one so named, and is not an introductory but a concluding identification to the particular document. This collection called Genesis thus includes not only the personal written records of Adam, Noah, Shem, Terah, Isaac, Jacob and Esau and Moses, but a written record of creation from Elohim/God Himself left to Adam after his creation. Indeed, the Lord God Himself gave witness to Isaiah of this very record made at the very beginning of creation: “Come near unto Me, and hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning [but plainly and openly]; from the time before it was done [the founding of the earth] I was there” (Isaiah 48:16).
Peter affirms that Adam wrote the part of Genesis in which is found the redemption text of 3:15-16 (Acts 3:21). That he was the author of Genesis 2:23 ... was a common belief in Jesus’ day. This means Adam, who states in 5:1 that what had preceded was his own personal written history, was a very real person with superior intelligence and with the skill and knowledge to understand and communicate. The inscription, “These are the histories of the heavens and the earth,” closing out chapter one, clearly distinguishing this from the following history of Adam, means this record came directly from the Creator and probably in the same form in which Moses received the Ten Commandments. Evidence also reveals that this entire collection of documents was handed down to Moses on a sequentially “numbered” series of clay tablets from which Moses compiled it in its present form and for which he has from the beginning rightly been given credit. A convincing scholarly summary of Wiseman’s significant research by Damien F. Mackey of the California Institute for Ancient Studies can be found at www.specialtyinterests.net/Toledot . On the uncertainty of radiocarbon dating beyond 3,000 years, by which anthropologists have attempted to determine the antiquity of man apart from the Biblical record see:
www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/does-c14-disprove-the-bible The Chronology of Genesis chapter five and the time of Adam’s creation have been discussed in the Introduction to this Study Bible.
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