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Knowledge of the coming Flood (1)

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04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery



 		Keywords
destruction of mankind
flood
punishments
Seth
Period
1st century CE 		Channel
Aramaic culture

Text
Adam instructs Seth as Ea informs Utnapištim in the Gilgameš Epic.

Apocalypse of Adam 67-69 :
“Now then, my son Seth, I will reveal to you the things which those men whom I saw before me at first revealed to me: after I have completed the times of this generation and [the] years of [the generation] have been accomplished, [then … ] slave [ … ]. (p. 68 blank) 69 “For rain-showers of [god] the almighty will be poured forth [so that] he might destroy [all] flesh of god the almighty, so that he might destroy all flesh from the earth on account of the things that it seeks after, along with [those from] the seed [of] the men to whom passed the life of the knowledge, which came from me [and] Eve, your mother.”

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Apocalypse of Adam 67-69

Bibliography

Robinson 1996, 280Robinson, James MacConkey (ed.). The Nag Hammadi Library in English. Leiden: Brill 1996 (fourth edition, esp. pp. 41, 43, 166, 280).

Amar Annus


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