“Some brothers,” he said, “are like Cain and Abel.” Given the widely reported tensions between the two emerging West Wing rivals, most commentators quickly pointed out that Scaramucci’s ...

This question is as old as the Bible, it turns out. In Genesis, the story of Cain and Abel is not only the first account of human violence. It is also the first story that forces us to face the ...

(Genesis 4:1) Most of us go through life with a child’s Bible story concept of the story of Cain and Abel. We recall that Cain brought an offering of vegetables, and according to the Midrash not ...

The first thing we learn is that Eve has a bouncing baby boy, Cain. Then another, Abel. The next thing we’re told is their work: Abel is a shepherd, Cain a farmer. Both go to offer the “first ...

We might infer from this that the dispute between Cain and Abel (in chapter four) is of secondary significance and could have even been presented elsewhere. Yet, the Torah does devote a great ...

Previously, she founded The Mary Sue. Not right. The primary reference for The Sandman’s Cain and Abel isn’t biblical at all, but something much, much trashier. Something that makes the weird ...

At least since Augustine’s The City of God, the biblical account of Cain and Abel has been used to treat them as archetypes of humanity. Augustine argues that mankind is “distributed into two ...

In a profanity-laced interview, Scaramucci compared his relationship with Reince Priebus, then-White House chief of staff, to that between the Bible’s Cain and Abel, because, in his words ...

Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Most of us go through life with a child’s Bible story concept of the story of Cain and Abel. We recall that Cain brought an offering of ...