Cain and Abel, Genesis 4, is one of the most fascinating stories in the Bible. You probably know the story. This week I invite you to think about why the story is there and what you can learn from it.

National Geographic explores notable biblical figures in our ongoing series People in the Bible, as part of our coverage of the history of the Bible and the search for sacred texts. As soon as Adam ...

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Moses recorded how the Lord described Himself, and one of His traits became a commonly repeated biblical phrase: “The Lord passed before him [Moses] and proclaimed, ‘The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful ...

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 parts, ...

Who was the better person, Cain or Abel? It is possible to see the tale of Cain and Abel in a different light. In his Guide of the Perplexed 3:32, Maimonides states that God neither needs nor wants ...

As we go to press, a group of clergy-protesters, including Dr. Cornel West, are in lockup in Ferguson: this morsel of biblical scholarship, dealing as it does with power, injustice, and the legacy of ...

Watching The Sandman on Netflix (or reading the DC comic) can be an exercise in “spot the reference.” The story hangs together perfectly even if you don’t know that Dream’s raven Matthew is a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Cain and Abel is no exception, and in training its sights on the Bible's foundational myth of violence, The Rabble makes central ...