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This chapter deals with various Targums, the translation of the Old Testament into Greek and the Syriac translation. As in the Targums, so too in Genesis Rabbah, Gen. 4, was thought to refer to the simultaneous birth of Cain and Abel. In Pirḳe de Rabbi Eliezer (PRE) it is explicitly stated that Cain was not Adam's son. Unlike the other synagogal literature, Zohar does not provide much fresh material. Seth is obviously considered to be the founder of mankind. In later Jewish literature an attempt is made to explain a number of problems raised by the complex origin of the first chapters of Genesis. Most of the information in the chapter comes from the Book of Jubilees, the Vita Adae et Evae, the Apocalypse of Moses and the Ethiopic Book of Enoch. Seth is the main source of information about life in paradise and the life of Adam and Eve.Keywords: apocalypse of Moses; Genesis Rabbah; Jewish literature; Jubilees; Old Testament; Pirḳe de Rabbi Eliezer (PRE); Seth; synagogal literature; Vita Adae et Evae; Zohar
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