Tag: Rogers & Hammerstein

• Cain and Abel – A Different Slant

  Why, in Genesis 4, does this strangely ambiguous and shockingly bloodthirsty story make its appearance, about the two brothers Cain and Abel? Cain was not, of course, a historical person but an invention, a character in a story intended to portray something ‘true to life’. Needing to find him a name, the storyteller came up […]

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  5th Apr 2022

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Cain & Abel, Farmer v Herder, Genesis, Guilt, Murder, Myth, Oklahoma, Rogers & Hammerstein, Yahweh