Penitence of Adam

The Penitence of Adam was a popular early Christian-era work, that is believed to have originally been a Jewish texts, and was then adopted by the earliest Christians. Based on the references to the the Powers, the Armenian translation was likely based on the Latin Life of Adam and Eve, however, it also contained words that appear to have been transliterated directly from an Aramaic source. There is no way to internally date the text, however, it is accepted as dating to the 2nd-century AD.