52 BABYLONIAN LITERATURE. 



most important part in " The Book of Na- 

 bathsean Agriculture " is Adami. Adami 

 was considered as the founder of agricul- 

 ture in Chaldaea ; * to him are attributed cer- 

 tain books of which Kuthami doubts the 

 authenticity, and which he found altered or 

 interpolated. Kuthami, a zealous monotheist, 

 quotes him among his authorities. We 

 know that many apocryphal writings were 

 attributed to Adam, 2 that the Mendaites 

 ascribed their chief book to him, and that 

 the ancient Sabians had books under his 

 name. Our Adami is thus most undoubtedly 

 the Adamas or apocryphal Adam of the 

 Babylonian sects. 3 Can there remain any 

 doubt about this identity, when it is seen 

 that Adam bears, in " The Agriculture," 

 the title of y^l^ y\ Father of Mankind* a 

 title which all the Moslem East gives to 

 Adam. 5 



1 p. 27. 



2 See Herbelot Bibliothequc Orietttale, art. Adam ; Fabricii 

 Codex Pseudopigrnphus Vet. Test. t. i. p, 1 ff. ; t. ii. p. 1 ff. 



3 See Hippolyti Refutationes Hseresium, ind. p. 557. 



4 Page 174. 



6 Dr. Chwolson himself seems to confound, at times, what relates 



