Reading Notes: Noah (Ginzberg)

I'm reading Part B of the Noah unit because I need the Samael material for my planned story.

The Holy Book
links to Wikipedia articles about the angels mentioned here:
Raziel - Samael - Rahab (sea monster really, not angel) - Raphael
the Adam and Eve unit mentioned Angel of Death

(Angel of Death Victorious by Herman Matzen)

Raziel is the angel who gave the book of knowledge to Noah to build the Ark
Samael, with his little son, asked Eve to babysit. Adam came back, asked about the crying baby, and Eve said it was Samael's son. Adam got angry at the baby crying, and killed him with a single blow, but the corpse kept crying, so Adam cut it up into pieces. Then he cooked the pieces, and they both ate.
Then Samael shows up and wants his son. They pretended never to have heard of his son.
Then the dead boy spoke from the hearts of Adam and Eve, and told Samael to go away because he was going to stay in their hearts, and their descendants' hearts, forever.
Adam was really upset, but God offered him a remedy against Samael: the Torah.
This was the book of Raziel, and God gave it to him, but the angels were jealous when Adam read the book. At first they tried to worship him as a god to get him into trouble, but he rebuked them. Then they stole the book and threw into the sea, and Adam was sad.
God then called Rahab, the angel of the sea, to bring the book back.
When Adam died, the book disappeared, hidden in a cave, but the location came to Enoch in a dream. After memorizing the book, Enoch hid it again.
Then, when God decided to flood the earth, he sent Raphael to Noah with the book, and Noah studied the book and he knew how to build the art. The book was made of sapphires (?); Noah put it in a golden casket and took it with him, and it descended through the generations to Solomon, who got wisdom from it that made him a healer and master of demons.
Later it talks about a legend of a "precious stone" whose light helped Noah distinguish between night and day, just as it said the book helped him keep time.
There is mention here that Cain died in the flood!

There is information about Nimrod here at the end of the unit also, but not the story of Abraham and Nimrod... which is good I guess because otherwise I would feel obliged to tell that story as a chain tale too. I need to remember to come back to the materials about Abraham and Nimrod here if I do decide to use that story later for my project.