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{{Short description|First man according to the Abrahamic religions such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam}}
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| image              = Michelangelo, Creation of Adam 03.jpg
| caption            = Detail from [[Michelangelo]]'s ''[[The Creation of Adam]]'', [[Sistine Chapel ceiling]]
| era                = [[Garden of Eden|Edenic]] and [[Antediluvian]]
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'''Adam'''{{efn|{{Hebrew name|{{Script/Hebrew|אָדָם}}|ʾAdam|ʾĀḏām}}; [[Aramaic]]: ܐܕܡ; {{langx|ar|آدَم|ʾĀdam}}; {{langx|el|Ἀδάμ|Adám}}; {{langx|la|Adam}}}} is the name given in [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]] 1–5 to the first human.{{sfn|Hendel|2000|p=18}} Adam is the first human-being aware of [[God]], and features as such in various belief systems (including [[Judaism]], [[Christianity]], [[Gnosticism]] and [[Islam]]).<ref>Chipman, Leigh NB. "Mythic Aspects of the Process of Adam's Creation in Judaism and Islam." Studia Islamica (2001): 5-25.</ref>

In Judaism, Adam (Hebrew: אדם) was the first human being created by God on the sixth day of creation. He was the first sentient creature and was endowed with language. The Book of Genesis relates two different narratives of creation (chapter 1 and chapter 2). Later Jewish commentaries have attempted to reconcile the two stories and to imbue them with additional meanings. 

According to Christianity, Adam [[sin]]ned in the [[Garden of Eden]] by eating from the [[tree of the knowledge of good and evil]]. This action introduced death and sin into the world. This sinful nature infected all his descendants, and led humanity to be expelled from the Garden. Only through the [[crucifixion of Jesus]], humanity can be redeemed.

In Islam, Adam is considered ''[[Khalifa]]'' (خليفة) (successor) on earth. This is understood to mean either that he is God's deputy, the initiation of a new cycle of sentient life on earth, or both.<ref>Mahmoud Ayoub ''The Qur'an and Its Interpreters, Volume 1'' SUNY Press, 1984 {{ISBN|978-0-87395-727-4}} p. 73</ref> Similar to the Biblical account, the [[Quran]] has Adam placed in a garden where he sins by taking from the [[Tree of life (Quran)|Tree of Immortality]], so loses his abode in the garden. When Adam repents from his sin, he is forgiven by God. This is seen as a guidance for human-life, who sin, become aware of their mistake, and repent.<ref>Stieglecker, H. (1962). Die Glaubenslehren des Islam. Deutschland: F. Schöningh</ref>

In Gnostic belief-systems, the bodily creation of Adam is viewed in a negative light.<ref>Chipman, Leigh NB. "Mythic Aspects of the Process of Adam's Creation in Judaism and Islam." Studia Islamica (2001): 5-25.</ref> Due to the underlying demonization of matter, Gnostic cosmologies depict the body as a form of prison of Adam's soul. This soul would have been transferred by [[Sophia (Gnosticism)|Sophia]] (wisdom) onto the [[Demiurge|creator]] (Demiurge) of the [[Demiurge|material world]], who in turn is tricked into blowing the soul into a body.

==Composition of the Adam narrative==
[[File:William Blake 008.jpg|thumb|''And Elohim Created Adam'', [[William Blake]]]]
In [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]], the name "Adam" is given to the first human.{{sfn|Hendel|2000|p=18}} Beyond its use as the name of the first man, the Hebrew word ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a [[pronoun]], individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as "mankind".{{sfn|Hendel|2000|p=18}} {{Bibleverse|Genesis|1|HE}} tells of God's creation of the world and its creatures, including the Hebrew word ''adam'', meaning humankind. In {{Bibleverse|Genesis|2|HE}} God forms "Adam", this time meaning a single male human, out of "the dust of the ground", places him in the [[Garden of Eden]], and forms a woman, [[Eve]], as his companion. In {{bibleverse|Genesis|3}} Adam and Eve eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge and God condemns Adam to labour on the earth for his food and to return to it on his death. {{bibleverse|Genesis|4}} deals with the birth of Adam's sons, and {{bibleverse|Genesis|5}} lists his descendants from Seth to [[Noah]].

In the entire Hebrew Bible, Adam appears only in chapters 1–5 of the Book of Genesis, with the exception of a mention at the beginning of the [[Books of Chronicles]] where, as in Genesis, he heads the list of Israel's ancestors.{{sfn|Enns|2012|p=84}} The majority view among scholars is that the final text of Genesis dates from the [[Achaemenid Empire|Persian period]] (the 5th century BCE),{{sfn|Cosgrove|2004|p=168}} but the absence of all the other characters and incidents mentioned in [[Primeval history|chapters 1–11]] of Genesis from the rest of the Hebrew Bible has led a sizeable minority to the conclusion that these chapters were composed much later than those that follow, possibly in the 3rd century BCE.{{sfn|Gmirkin|2006|pp=240—241}}

==Etymology==
In the original Hebrew of Genesis, אָדָם ʾĀḏām. It is believed that the word is connected to אדמה adamah = earth, soil from whence God created Adam as described in Genesis 2. There is a possibility that it may be connected to אדום = red, referring either to the red color of the soil or to the color of human skin.<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Adam</ref> The name could possibly be derived from Akkadian "adamu", meaning to make.<ref>https://www.behindthename.com/name/adam</ref>

In bible translations the name was translitterated into the various languages as Aramaic: ܐܕܡ; Arabic: آدَم ʾĀdam; Greek: Ἀδάμ Adám and finally into Latin, Adam, which lead to its form in Romance and Germanic modern languages.

==Usage==
===Mankind—human being—male individual===
The Bible uses the word {{Script/Hebrew|אָדָם}} ('' 'adam '') in all of its senses: collectively ("mankind", {{bibleverse|Genesis|1:27}}), individually (a "man", {{bibleverse|Genesis|2:7}}), gender nonspecific ("man and woman", {{bibleverse|Genesis|5:1–2}}), and male ({{bibleverse|Genesis|2:23–24}}).{{sfn|Hendel|2000|p=18}} In Genesis 1:27 "adam" is used in the collective sense, and the interplay between the individual "Adam" and the collective "humankind" is a main literary component to the events that occur in the [[Garden of Eden]], the ambiguous meanings embedded throughout the moral, sexual, and spiritual terms of the narrative reflecting the complexity of the human condition.{{sfn|Hendel|2000|p=18-19}} Genesis 2:7 is the first verse where "Adam" takes on the sense of an individual man (the first man), and the context of sex is absent; the gender distinction of "adam" is then reiterated in Genesis 5:1–2 by defining "male and female".{{sfn|Hendel|2000|p=18}}

===Connection to the earth===
A recurring [[literary motif]] is the bond between Adam and the earth (''[[adamah]]''): [[Yahweh|God]] creates Adam by molding him out of clay in the final stages of the [[Genesis creation narrative|creation narrative]]. After the loss of innocence, God curses Adam and the earth as punishment for his disobedience. Adam and humanity are cursed to die and return to the earth (or ground) from which he was formed.{{sfn|Hendel|2000|p=119}} This "earthly" aspect is a component of Adam's identity, and Adam's curse of estrangement from the earth seems to describe humankind's divided nature of being earthly yet separated from nature.{{sfn|Hendel|2000|p=119}}

==In the Hebrew Bible==
{{Main|Genesis creation narrative}}
[[File:God judging adam blake 1795.jpg|thumb|right|275px|''God Judging Adam'', [[William Blake]], 1795]]
Genesis 1 tells of God's creation of the world and its creatures, with humankind as the last of his creatures: "Male and female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam&nbsp;..." ({{Bibleverse|Genesis|5:2|HE}}). God blesses mankind, commands them to "[[be fruitful and multiply]]", and gives them "dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" ({{Bibleverse|Genesis|1.26–27|KJV}}).

In {{Bibleverse|Genesis|2|HE}}, God forms "Adam", this time meaning a single male human, out of "the dust of the ground" and "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life" ({{Bibleverse|Genesis|2:7|KJV}}). God then places this first man in the [[Garden of Eden]], telling him that "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the [[tree of the knowledge of good and evil]], thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" ({{Bibleverse|Genesis|2:16–17|KJV}}). God then notes that "It is not good that the man should be alone" ({{Bibleverse|Genesis|2:18|KJV}}) and brings the animals to Adam, who gives them their names, but among all the animals there was not found a companion for him ({{Bibleverse|Genesis|2:20|NASB}}). God causes a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and forms a woman ({{Bibleverse|Genesis|2:21–22|KJV}}), and Adam awakes and greets her as his helpmate.

{{bibleverse|Genesis|3}}, the account of the Fall: A [[Serpents in the Bible|serpent]] persuades the woman to disobey God's command and eat of the tree of knowledge, which gives wisdom. Woman convinces Adam to do likewise, whereupon they become conscious of their nakedness, cover themselves, and hide from the sight of God. God questions Adam, who blames the woman. God passes judgment, first upon the serpent, condemned to go on his belly, then the woman, condemned to pain in childbirth and subordination to her husband, and finally Adam, who is condemned to labour on the earth for his food and to return to it on his death.<ref>{{harvnb|Mathews|1996|p=252}}</ref> God then expels the man and woman from the garden, lest they eat of the [[Tree of life (biblical)|Tree of Life]] and become immortal.

The [[chiasmus|chiastic]] structure of the death oracle given to Adam in {{bibleverse|Genesis|3:19}} forms a link between man's creation from "dust" ({{bibleverse|Genesis|2:7}}) to the "return" of his beginnings.<ref>{{harvnb|Mathews|1996|p=253}}</ref>
:'''A''' you return
:::'''B''' to the ground
::::'''C''' since (''kî'' ) from it you were taken 
::::'''C'''' for (''kî'' ) dust you are
:::'''B'''' and to dust
:'''A'''' you will return

{{bibleverse|Genesis|4}} deals with the birth of Adam's sons [[Cain and Abel]] and the story of the first murder, followed by the birth of a third son, Seth. {{bibleverse|Genesis|5}}, the Book of the Generations of Adam, lists the descendants of Adam from Seth to [[Noah]] with their ages at the birth of their first sons (except Adam himself, for whom his age at the birth of Seth, his third son, is given) and their ages at death (Adam lives 930 years, up to the 56th year of [[Lamech (father of Noah)|Lamech, father of Noah]]). The chapter notes that Adam had other sons and daughters after Seth, but does not name them.

==Post-Biblical Jewish traditions==
[[File:Lucas Cranach the Elder - Adam - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|Adam, [[Lucas Cranach the Elder]]]]
{{Main|Adam in rabbinic literature}}

===Body===
[[Louis Ginzberg]] retells a [[midrash]] that God himself took dust from all four corners of the earth, and with each color (red for the blood, black for the bowels, white for the bones and veins, and green for the pale skin), created Adam.{{sfn|Ginzberg|1909|loc=vol I, chapter II}} The soul of Adam is the image of [[God]], and as God fills the world, so the soul fills the human body: "as God sees all things, and is seen by none, so the soul sees, but cannot be seen; as God guides the world, so the soul guides the body; as God in His holiness is pure, so is the soul; and as God dwells in secret, so doth the soul."<ref>{{harvnb|Ginzberg|1909|loc=vol I, chapter II}}<br />Citation: "God had fashioned his (Adam's) soul with particular care. She is the image of God,</ref> According to Jewish literature, Adam possessed a body of light, identical to the light created by God on the first day,{{sfn|Schwartz|2006|p=130}} and the original glory of Adam can be regained through mystical contemplation of God.{{sfn|Hendel|2000|p=19}}

===Adam, Lilith and Eve===
The rabbis, puzzled by fact that Genesis 1 states that God created man and woman together while Genesis 2 describes them being created separately, told that when God created Adam he also created a woman from the dust, as he had created Adam, and named her [[Lilith]]; but the two could not agree, for Adam wanted Lilith to lie under him, and Lilith insisted that Adam should lie under her, and so she fled from him, and Eve was created from Adam's rib.{{sfn|Schwartz|2006|p=218}} Her story was greatly developed, during the [[Middle Ages]], in the tradition of [[Aggadic midrashim]], the [[Zohar]] and [[Jewish mysticism]]. Other rabbis explained the same verse as meaning that Adam was created with two faces, male and female, or as a single [[hermaphrodite]] being, male and female joined back to back, but God saw that this made walking and conversing difficult, and so split them apart.{{sfn|Schwartz|2006|p=138}}

===Eve's fault in the Fall===
The serpent approached Eve rather than Adam because Adam had heard the word of God with his own ears, whereas Eve had only his report; Eve tasted the fruit and knew at once that she was doomed to death, and said to herself that it was better she trick Adam into eating so that he too would die, and not take another woman in her place.{{sfn|Schwartz|2006|p=434-435}} Adam ate the fruit unaware of what he was doing, and was filled with grief.{{sfn|Schwartz|2006|p=434-435}} When Adam blamed Eve after eating the forbidden fruit, God rebuked him that Adam as a man should not have obeyed his wife, for he is the head, not her.{{sfn|Ginzberg|1909|p=36-37}}

=== Adam and the winter solstice===
An [[Aggada|Aggadic]] legend found in tractate [[Avodah Zarah]] 8a has observations regarding Roman midwinter holidays, and the [[Christmas#Talmudic hypothesis|talmudic hypothesis]] that Adam instituted the custom of fasting before the [[winter solstice#Judaic|winter solstice]] and rejoicing afterwards – an observance that devolved into [[Saturnalia#Jewish|Saturnalia]] and the [[Calends]].

===Children of Adam and Eve===
Adam withdrew from Eve for 130 years after their expulsion from Eden, and in this time both he and Eve had sex with demons, until at length they reunited and Eve gave birth to Seth.{{sfn|Schwartz|2006|p=218}} A 2nd-century BCE [[Judaism|Jewish religious work]], the [[Book of Jubilees]], tells how Adam had a daughter, Awân, born after Cain and Abel,<ref>[http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/jub/jub16.htm Jubilees 4:1].</ref> and another daughter, [[Azura (religious figure)|Azura]], born after Seth,<ref>Jubilees 4:9</ref> and they had nine other sons;<ref>Jubilees 4:10</ref> Cain married Awân and Seth married Azûrâ, thus accounting for their descendants. The ''[[Life of Adam and Eve]]'' and its Greek version the ''[[Apocalypse of Moses]]'' recount how Adam repented his sin in exile and was rewarded by being transported to the heavenly paradise, foreshadowing the destiny of all the righteous at the end of time.{{sfn|Hendel|2000|p=19}}

===Adam's death and burial===
The [[Archangel Michael]] attended Adam's death, together with Eve and his son Seth, still living at that time, and he was buried together with his murdered son Abel.{{sfn|Schwartz|2006|p=445}} Because they repented, God gave Adam and Eve garments of light, and similar garments will clothe the [[Messiah]] when he comes.{{sfn|Schwartz|2006|p=437}}

According to the [[Apocalypse of Moses]], which probably originates in first-century CE Jewish literature, the altar of the [[Temple of Solomon]] was the centre of the world and the gateway to God's Garden of Eden, and it was here that Adam was both created and buried.{{sfn|Ginzberg|1998|p=125-126}}

===Attitude towards Adam===
In the 17th-century book [[Kav ha-Yashar]], the author warns not to talk negatively about Adam, and writes that those who talk positively about Adam will be blessed with a long life.<ref>Parshat Chukat</ref> A similar warning can be found in [[Zohar|The Zohar]].<ref>Zohar Chadash Parshat Beresheit 24a or in older versions 19</ref>

===Adam and the angel Raziel===
The [[Sefer Raziel HaMalakh]] (רזיאל המלאך) (''[[Raziel (angel)|Raziel]] the Angel'') is a collection of esoteric writings, probably compiled and edited by the same hand, but originally not the work of one author, which according to tradition was revealed to Adam by the angel Raziel. The book cannot be shown to predate the 13th century, but may in parts date back to [[Late Antiquity]], and like other obscure ancient texts such as the [[Bahir]] and ''[[Sefer Yetzirah]]'', it has been extant in a number of versions. Zunz ("G. V." 2d ed., p.&nbsp;176) distinguishes three main parts: (1) the Book Ha-Malbush; (2) the Great Raziel; (3) the Book of Secrets, or the Book of Noah. These three parts are still distinguishable—2b–7a, 7b–33b, 34a and b. After these follow two shorter parts entitled "Creation" and "Shi'ur Ḳomah", and after 41a come formulas for amulets and incantations.<ref>
[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=142&letter=R&search=raziel "Raziel, Book of"]. ''Jewish Encyclopedia'' (1906).
</ref>

==In Christianity==
{{For|the Christian doctrines|Fall of man|Original sin}}

===Original sin===
[[File:Angel of the Divine Presence Bringing Eve to Adam (The Creation of Eve- "And She Shall be Called Woman) (recto); Sketch for the same (verso) MET DP805381.jpg|thumb|William Blake's pencil illustration of ''The Creation of Eve'' in response to the line "And She Shall Be Called Woman". The object was created c. 1803–1805 and currently is held by the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]<ref>{{cite web| publisher = [[William Blake Archive]]| url = http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/object.xq?objectid=but435.1.wc.01&java=no| title = The Creation of Eve: "And She Shall Be Called Woman", object 1 (Butlin 435) "The Creation of Eve: "And She Shall Be Called Woman""| editor= Morris Eaves |editor2=Robert N. Essick |editor3=Joseph Viscomi}}</ref>]]
The idea of original sin is not found in Judaism nor in Islam, and was introduced into Christianity by the [[Apostle Paul]], drawing on currents in Hellenistic Jewish thought which held that Adam's sin had introduced death and sin into the world.{{sfn|Pies|2000|p=xviii}}{{sfn|Boring|2012|p=301}} Sin, for Paul, was a power to which all humans are subject, but Christ's coming held out the means by which the righteous would be restored to the Paradise from which Adam's sin had banished mankind.{{sfn|Boring|2012|p=301}}{{sfn|Hendel|2000|p=19}} He did not conceive of this [[original sin]] of Adam as being biologically transmitted or that later generations were to be punished for the deeds of a remote ancestor.{{sfn|Boring|2012|p=301}} It was [[Augustine of Hippo|Augustine]] who took this step, locating sin itself in male semen: when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit they were ashamed and covered their genitals, identifying the place from which the first sin was passed on to all succeeding generations.{{sfn|Stortz|2001|p=93}} Only Jesus Christ, who was not conceived by human semen, was free of the stain passed down from Adam.{{sfn|Stortz|2001|pp=93—94}} (Augustine's idea was based on the ancient world's ideas on biology, according to which male sperm contained the entire unborn baby, the mother's womb being no more than a nurturing chamber in which it grew.){{sfn|Stortz|2001|p=94}}

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As mentioned [[#Adam's death and burial|above]], the [[Apocalypse of Moses]], a Jewish writing containing material probably originating from the first century CE, places both Adam's place of creation and his burial at the altar of the Temple of Solomon, seen as the centre of the world and the gateway to the Garden of Eden.{{sfn|Ginzberg|1998|p=125-126}} The early Christian community adapted this to their own legend of [[Golgotha]], replacing the altar with the place of Jesus's crucifixion.{{sfn|Ginzberg|1998|p=126}} According to this Christian legend, current in the time of [[Origen]] (early 3rd century CE), the holy blood of Christ trickled down and restored to life the father of the human race, who then led the saints who appeared to many in Jerusalem on that day as described in Scripture.{{sfn|Hanauer|2011|pp=69—70}}

==In Mandaeism==
{{further|Adam kasia|Adam pagra}}
In [[Mandaeism]], Adam is considered the founder of the religion and the first prophet. He heralds ''[[Manda (Mandaeism)|manda]]'' (knowledge) and the true path of enlightenment. He is viewed as the propagator of ''[[kushta]]'' or divine truth.<ref name=BSN>{{cite web|author=Brikhah S. Nasoraia|title=Sacred Text and Esoteric Praxis in Sabian Mandaean Religion|year=2012|url=http://isamveri.org/pdfdrg/D201813/2012_I/2012_I_NASORAIAB.pdf}}</ref>{{rp|31,45}} According to the [[Mandaean calendar]], 2021–2022 CE in the Gregorian calendar would correspond to the Mandaean year 445391 AA (AA = after the creation of Adam).<ref name="Gelbert 2005">{{cite book|last=Gelbert|first=Carlos|title=The Mandaeans and the Jews|publisher=Living Water Books|publication-place=Edensor Park, NSW|year=2005|isbn=0-9580346-2-1|oclc=68208613}}</ref>

==In Gnosticism==
{{further|Adam Kadmon#Gnosticism}}
{{see also|Apocalypse of Adam}}
In the ancient [[Gnosticism|Gnostic]] text [[On the Origin of the World]], Adam originally appears as a primordial being born from light poured out by the [[Aeon (Gnosticism)|aeon]] known as forethought. Accordingly, his primordial form is called Adam of Light. But when he desired to reach the eighth [[heaven]], he was unable to because of the corruption mixed with his light. Thus he creates his own realm, containing six universes and their worlds which are seven times better than the heavens of [[Chaos (cosmogony)|Chaos]]. All these realms exist within the region between the eighth heaven and the Chaos beneath it. But when the [[Archon (Gnosticism)|archons]] saw him, they realize the chief creator of the material world ([[Demiurge#Yaldabaoth|Yaldabaoth]]) had lied to them by claiming he was the only god. However, they decide to create a physical version of Adam in the image of the spiritual Adam. But [[Sophia (Gnosticism)|Sophia]] later sends her daughter Zoe (the spiritual Eve) to give the physical Adam life before leaving the physical Eve with Adam and entering the [[Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil|Tree of Knowledge]]. However, according to the [[Hypostasis of the Archons]], a spirit descends on the physical Adam and gives him a living soul.<ref>{{cite book|author1=[[Marvin Meyer]]|author2=[[Willis Barnstone]]|title=The Gnostic Bible|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1SEFmwEACAAJ|publisher=[[Shambhala Publications|Shambhala]]|chapter=On the Origin of the World and The Reality of the Rulers (The Hypostasis of the Archons)|date=June 30, 2009|isbn=978-1-59030-631-4 |access-date=2021-10-17}}</ref>

==In Islam==
{{Main|Adam in Islam}}
[[File:Islamic Adam & Eve.jpg|thumb|right|Adam and Eve, Manafi al-Hayawan (The Useful Animals), [[Maragheh]], Iran, 1294–99]]
In Islam, [[God in Islam|Allah]] created Adam ([[Arabic language|Arabic]]: '''آدم''') from a handful of earth taken from the entire world, which explains why the peoples of the world are of different skin colors.{{sfn|Wheeler|2002|pp=17—18}} According to the [[Islamic creation myth]], he was the first [[Prophets of Islam|prophet of Islam]] and the first [[Muslim]]. The [[Quran|Qur'an]] states that all the [[prophet]]s preached the same faith of [[submission to God]]. When God informed the angels that he would create a [[Viceroy|vicegerent]] ({{Langx|ar|خليفة|lit=caliph|translit=khalifa}}) on Earth, the angels enquired, asking, "will You place therein that which will spread corruption and bloodshed?" God responded, "I know what you know not" ([[Quran|Qur'an]] [[Al-Baqara|2:30]]), and commanded the angels to prostrate to Adam.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Surah Al-Baqarah Ayat 30 (2:30 Quran) With Tafsir |url=https://myislam.org/surah-baqarah/ayat-30/ |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=My Islam |language=en-US}}</ref>

Adam and Eve both ate from the [[Tree of life (Quran)|Tree of Immortality]] ({{langx|ar|شَجَرَةُ الْخُلْد|šajara al-ḫuld}}) despite Allah's warnings against it, and both shared guilt equally, for Eve neither tempted Adam or ate before him; nor is Eve to blame for the pain of childbirth, for God never punishes one person for the sins of another.<ref>{{qref|35|18|b=y}}</ref> The [[Shia]] school of Islam does not even consider that their action was a sin, for obedience and disobedience are possible only on Earth, and not in heaven where the paradise is located.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}

According to ''[[Qisas al-Anbiya]]'', Adam fell on [[Adam's Peak]] located in central [[Sri Lanka]], the tallest mountain in the world and so the closest to Heaven, and from there God sent him to [[Mecca]], where he repented and was forgiven.{{sfn|Wheeler|2002|p=25,30}} At [[Mecca]] he built the first Sanctuary (the [[Kaabah]] – which was later rebuilt by [[Abraham in Islam|Ibrahim]]) and was taught the ritual of the Hajj, and wove the first cloak for himself and the first veil and shift for Eve, and after this returned to India where he died at the age of 930, having seen the sons of the sons of his children, 1400 in all.{{sfn|Wheeler|2002|p=32,39,43}}

According to the [[Ahmadiyya]] sect, Adam was not the first human being on earth, but when the human race came into existence, and spread all over the world and developed the ability to receive revelation, God sent Adam to each and every branch of civilization. This opinion has also been alluded to and accepted by Islamic scholars of different sects. According to a revelation received by [[Mirza Ghulam Ahmad]], the founder of the community, the Adam mentioned in the Qur'an was born 4,598 years before Muhammad.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.alislam.org/library/links/00000179.html | title=Man Lived on Earth Even Before the Advent of Adam | publisher=Al Islam| date=2000-02-16 }}</ref>

The Muslim thinker [[Nasir Khusraw]] offers another interpretation of Adam's significance to the Islamic religious tradition. He writes that Adam was the first enunciator of divine revelation ({{Langx|ar|ناطق|translit=nāṭiq|lit=orator}}) and Seth was his legatee ({{Langx|ar|وصي|translit=wasī|lit=inheritor, guardian}}). He argues that the descendants of Seth are [[Imamate in Ismaili doctrine|Aimmah]], culminating in the seventh Imam, Nuh/Noah who, in addition to holding the Imamate, would also hold the position of enunciator and prophet ({{Langx|ar|نبي|translit=nabi}}).<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Virani|first=Shafique|title=The Days of Creation in the Thought of Nasir Khusraw |url=https://www.academia.edu/37219457|journal=Nasir Khusraw: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow|date=January 2005 }}</ref>

In the Islamic traditions ([[hadith|ahadith]]), Adam is given the name Adam-aI-Safi ({{Langx|ar|آدم ألصافي|lit=Adam, The Chosen One}}) by Allah.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.academia.edu/7170404 |title=Shaggy or Shaved? The Symbolism of Hair among Persian Qalandar Sufis |last=Ridgeon |first=Lloyd |journal=Iran and the Caucasus |date=2010 |volume=14 |issue=2 |page= 12 |doi=10.1163/157338410X12743419190142 |quote=Adam was given the honorary name of "Adam-I-Safi" meaning: The Chosen One}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/ijt/07-2_056.pdf |title=The Christ of the Quran |last=Anand |first=K.D.W. |website=biblicalstudies.org.uk |page=57 |quote=Adam was God's Chosen one "Adam-Safi"}}</ref>

== In Druze faith ==
The [[Druze]] regard Adam as the first spokesman (''natiq''), who helped to transmit the foundational teachings of monotheism (''tawhid'') intended for a larger audience.{{sfn|Swayd|2009|p=3}} He is also considered an important prophet of God in Druze faith, being among the seven prophets who appeared in different periods of history.<ref name="Hitti 1928 37">{{cite book|title=The Origins of the Druze People and Religion: With Extracts from Their Sacred Writings| first= Philip K.|last= Hitti|year= 1928| isbn= 978-1-4655-4662-3| page =37 |publisher=Library of Alexandria}}</ref><ref name="Dana 2008 17">{{cite book|title=The Druze in the Middle East: Their Faith, Leadership, Identity and Status| first= Nissim |last= Dana|year= 2008| isbn= 978-1-903900-36-9| page =17 |publisher=Michigan University press}}</ref>

== In other religions and unorthodox practices ==
Some [[Taoism|Taoists]] in the [[Tang dynasty]], inspired by [[Emperor Taizong of Tang|Emperor Taizong]]'s [[Syncretism|syncretic]] beliefs and policies encouraging it, viewed the Christian version of [[Jesus]] as a redemptive manifestation of "[[Tao|the Way]]",<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Chua |first=Amy |title=Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance–and Why They Fall |publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-385-51284-8 |edition=1st |location=New York |page=71 |oclc=123079516}}</ref> and respected his ancestors, including Adam, as well.

Some [[Mongols|Mongolian]] [[Christians]] and [[Muslims]] thought Adam was the same person as [[The Buddha|Gautama Buddha]].<ref name=":100">{{Cite book |title=World Religions: Eastern Traditions |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |editor=Willard Gurdon Oxtoby |year=2002 |isbn=0-19-541521-3 |edition=2nd |location=Don Mills, Ontario |page=434 |oclc=46661540}}</ref>

== Historicity ==
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While a traditional view was that the Book of Genesis was authored by [[Moses]] and has been considered historical and metaphorical, modern scholars consider the Genesis creation narrative as one of various ancient [[origin myth]]s.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Van Seters|first=John|chapter=The Pentateuch|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=owwhpmIVgSAC&q=The+Hebrew+Bible+today:+an+introduction+to+critical+issues|editor=Steven L. McKenzie, Matt Patrick Graham|title=The Hebrew Bible Today: An Introduction to Critical Issues|publisher=Westminster John Knox Press|year=1998|isbn=978-0-664-25652-4|page=5}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Davies|first=G.I|chapter=Introduction to the Pentateuch|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3surkLVdw3UC&q=Oxford+Bible+Commentary+Introduction+to+the+Pentateuch&pg=PA12|editor=John Barton|title=Oxford Bible Commentary|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1998|isbn=978-0-19-875500-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordbiblecomme0000unse/page/37 37]|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordbiblecomme0000unse/page/37}}</ref>

Analysis like the [[documentary hypothesis]] also suggests that the text is a result of the compilation of multiple previous traditions, explaining apparent contradictions.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gooder|first=Paula|title=The Pentateuch: A Story of Beginnings|publisher=T&T Clark|year=2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=49XpvvO-Oq0C&q=The+Pentateuch+Paula+Gooder|isbn=978-0-567-08418-7|pages=12–14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Van Seters|first=John|title=The Pentateuch: A Social-science Commentary|publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group|year=2004|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T-Vi9eK_vS0C&q=Sources+of+the+bible&pg=PA7|isbn=978-0-567-08088-2|pages=30–86}}</ref> Other stories of the same canonical book, like the [[Genesis flood narrative]], are also understood as having been influenced by older literature, with parallels in the older ''[[Epic of Gilgamesh]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Finkel|first=Irving|title=The Ark Before Noah|publisher=Hachette|location=UK|date=2014|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AGYwIoItJQIC&q=The+Ark+Before+Noah|isbn=978-1-4447-5707-1|page=88}}</ref>

== Genetical analysis ==
In biology, the [[most recent common ancestor]]s of humans, when traced back using the [[Y-chromosome]] for the male lineage and [[mitochondrial DNA]] for the female lineage, are commonly called the [[Y-chromosomal Adam]] and [[Mitochondrial Eve]] respectively as a reference to Adam and Eve. These do not fork from a single couple at the same epoch, despite their names.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Takahata|first1=N|title=Allelic genealogy and human evolution|journal=Mol. Biol. Evol.|volume=10|issue=1|pages=2–22|date=January 1993|pmid=8450756|doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a039995|doi-access=free}}</ref>

==See also==
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* Adam's grave or burial site of his skull
** [[Cave of Machpelah]] in Hebron; according to traditional Jewish belief
** [[Temple of Solomon]]; according to the Jewish book, the [[Apocalypse of Moses]]
** [[Golgotha]]; now Adam's Chapel in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem; according to Christian tradition based on the Apocalypse of Moses
** [[Monastery of the Cross]] in Jerusalem; according to Christian tradition
** [[Imam Ali Shrine]] according to Shia tradition, after Noah buried him there following the deluge.
* [[Androgynos]], how some classified the initial Adam
* [[Adam–God doctrine]]
* [[Adam Kadmon]]
* [[Adam Kasia]]
* [[Adam Pagria]]
* [[Adapa]]
* [[Banu (Arabic)]]
* [[Eve]]
* [[List of Old Testament pseudepigrapha]]
** [[Life of Adam and Eve]]
** [[Apocalypse of Adam]]
** [[Testament of Adam]]
** [[Books of Adam]]
** [[Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan]]
* [[Mahabad (prophet)]]
* [[Manu (Hinduism)|Manu]]
* [[Shiva]]
* ''[[Paradise Lost]]''
* [[Table of prophets of Abrahamic religions]]
* [[Y-chromosomal Adam]]

==Notes==
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