The First Book of Adam and Eve

The First Book of Adam and Eve is taken from Rutherford H. Platt's longer work The Forgotten Books of Eden. This vivid apocryphal narrative reconstructs the days immediately after Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden, following their descent into the Cave of Treasures, their struggles with hunger, temptation and despair, and the many apparitions of Satan that test their faith.

Written in a voice that blends solemn myth with devotional reflection, the work weaves prophecy, moral instruction, and dramatic episodes — Cain and Abel, early rites of worship, and visions of future redemption — into a continuous, often intense meditation on fall, penitence and hope.

Long valued by students of the apocrypha, folklore and early Christian legend, the text survives in Arabic and Ethiopic traditions and has been rendered into modern English through various translations and editions.

Readers interested in biblical extras, pseudepigrapha, religious myth-making, or imaginative retellings of Genesis will find this book both richly descriptive and theologically suggestive: it sheds light on how ancient communities grappled with sin, suffering and the promise of salvation, while offering scenes of domestic intimacy and cosmic drama that have influenced later devotional and literary treatments of the Adam and Eve story.