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Cain and Abel - Summary.
The Torah presents a brief account of the brothers. It states that Cain was a tiller of the land while his younger brother Abel was a shepherd, and that one day they both offered sacrifice to God, Cain offering fruit and grain, and Abel offering fresh meat from his flock. For an unspecified reason, God favours Abel's sacrifice, and subsequently Cain murders Abel, for another unspecified reason, often assumed simply to be jealousy over God's favouritism. The Torah continues with God appare ...
See also:Cain and Abel, Cain and Abel - Names, Cain and Abel - The story, Cain and Abel - Summary, Cain and Abel - Motives, Cain and Abel - Abel's death, Cain and Abel - Burial, Cain and Abel - In the underworld, Cain and Abel - Mark of Cain, Cain and Abel - Wanderer, Cain and Abel - Origin, Cain and Abel - Cain and Abel in popular culture Read more here: » Cain and Abel: Encyclopedia II - Cain and Abel - The story |
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| | | | Cain and Abel - Motives: Encyclopedia II - Cain and Abel - Names Cain and Abel are english renderings of the Hebrew names קַיִן / קָיִן and הֶבֶל / הָבֶל, respectively, from the bible. In the modern Standard Hebrew transliteration, these are rendered Qáyin and Hével / Hável, whereas in Tiberian Hebrew they are rendered Qáyin / Qāyin and Héḇel / Hāḇel. In the Qur'an, Abel is named as Hābīl (هابيل), but Cain is not named, though Islamic tradition records his name ...
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| | | | Cain and Abel - Motives: Encyclopedia II - Cain and Abel - Cain and Abel in popular culture In popular culture, as the first murderer, and murder victim, Cain and Abel respectively have often formed the basis of tragic drama:
Grendel, son of Cain in the norse-Christian saga of Beowulf
Kane is the anti-hero of a series of books and short stories by the late Karl Edward Wagner in which the swordsman can never die save by violence and whose eyes are the mark given to him by God.
The death of Abel is the subject of a poem by Gessner and a tragedy by Legouvé.
John Steinbeck's East of Eden ...
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| | | | Cain and Abel - Motives: Encyclopedia II - Cain and Abel - Origin In critical scholarship, the prevailing theory is that the story is composed of a number of layers, with the original layer deriving from the Sumerian tale of the wooing of Inanna. In the tale, seen as representing the ancient conflict between nomadic herders and settled agrarian farmers, Dumuzi, the god of shepherds, and Enkimdu, the god of farmers, are competing for the attention of Inanna, chief goddess. Dumuzi is brash and aggressive, but Enkimdu is placid and easy going, so Inanna favours Enkimdu. However, on hearing this, Dumuzi starts boasting about how great he is, and exhibits such strong charisma that Enkimdu tells Inann ...
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