CAIN AND ABEL, the first two sons of Adam and Eve, the progenitors of the race according to the Bible, after their banishment from the garden of Eden (Gn. 4). Cain (Heb., Qayin), the elder, was a farmer; Abel (Heb., Hevel) was a shepherd. The biblical...

The eldest son of *Adam. According to *Genesis 4. *God rejected his grain offering while accepting the animal offering of his brother Abel. Cain murdered Abel and was compelled to wander the earth as a fugitive and...

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Detail of the Ghent Altarpiece (1432) at Saint Bavo Cathedral. According to Genesis, Cain and Abel were the first and second sons of Adam and Eve,[1] born after the Fall of Man.[2] Their story is told in Genesis 4:1-16, the Qur'an at 5:26-32, and Moses...

ABEL RAISES CAIN (DOCU) A Crashcourse Documentaries presentation. Produced by Jenny Abel. Directed, written, edited by Jenny Abel, Jeff Hockett. Camera (color, DV), Abel, Hockett; music, Alan Abel; sound, Abel, Hockett. Reviewed on videocassette at Slamdance Film Festival, Jan. 28,...

THE FRUIT OF THE FORBIDDEN TREE HAS LONG interested biblical readers and commentators. It is assumed that the fruit was an apple and a piece of this fruit got stuck in Adam's throat, hence the name Adam's apple for the larynx. The biblical...

Reggae, first produced on the island of Jamaica, is an African-Caribbean styled music inherently linked to Rastafarianism. Not universally accepted among the island's inhabitants due to its loose rhythms and slack lyrics, the genre was stapled as the music of the ghetto and shunned by...

There's no doubt this oversized ray gun can deliver the heat. The question is, how soon can the weapon, which neither kills nor maims, be delivered to Iraq?At a rain-soaked demonstration of the crowd-dispersal tool here Thursday, military officials said one could be deployed early...