Dying Adam With His Multiethnic Family: Understanding the Greek Life of Adam and Eve (Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha)

The "Greek Life of Adam and Eve" addresses the issue that every individual in every generation needs to face: the prospect of pain and sickness leading to death and beyond the great unknown. But what kind of message does this writing bring to its readers? What kind of "salvation" does it offer? Is it a Jewish or Christian text? In this attempt to provide a comprehensive interpretation, Michael Eldridge deploys a panoply of scholarly methods, including lexiacal analysis, textual criticism, genre criticism, narrative criticism and speech act theory, to establish that the "Greek Life" has in part a missionary intent and is most likely a Jewish rather than a Christian text.