Adam and Eve (LDS Church) the priesthood, including Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, and Methuselah. Three years prior to his death, Adam and his righteous posterity gathered in the valley of Adam-ondi-Ahman in present-day Daviess County, Missouri, where Adam and Eve had settled after being expelled from the Garden of Eden. At this meeting, Adam bestowed his last blessing on his descendants. Jesus Christ appeared at the meeting to bless Adam and Adam uttered prophecies, which are said to have been recorded by Enoch. Adam died when he was 930 years old. Some presidents of the LDS Church report to have had visions of
The Gospel According to Adam Twenty-Second Day" appeared in Akhbar al-Adab in 2004, his first unpublished—as well—novel "Al Dawa'er" winning the Cultural Palaces prize 2004. "The Gospel according to Adam" breaks the conventional format of the novel, consisting as it does of a single 60-page-long paragraph that, like all good streams of consciousness, sweeps writer and reader on to no pre-ordained or predictable destination. As a reviewer for Al-Ahram's literary page ( May 10, 2006) puts it, The Gospel according to Adam reflects "a social reality that has lost all certainties." In keeping with other novels (such as Ahmed Alaidy's "Being Abbas el Abd") of