Aramaic romance presented as autobiographical accounts of figures in the early chapters of Genesis (Lamech, Noah & Abraham). Scroll discovered in cave 1 at Qumran [in 1947] was acquired by Israel in 1954.

Other resources on line:

• Translation of 1QGenesis Apocryphon - J. C. Reeves' fresh rendering of columns 2-19 based on microfiche images of ms. [U of NC at Charlotte].

• Bible Interpretation - chapter 10 of Geza Vermes' Dead Sea Scrolls in English opens with his translation of the apocryphon found in cave 1.

• Tales of the Patriarchs. annotated paraphrase of  text [Pseudepigrapha.com].

• Genesis Apocryphon - entry in Wikipedia's growing web.