OLD TESTAMENT & ART: Tucked above depictions of Adam and Eve, the haunting images of Cain and Abel in the Ghent Altarpiece underscore the wages of sin and the need for redemption.

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 ...

And Cain spoke unto Abel his brother … (4:8) The big mystery here is what was the content of the brothers’ conversation. The Torah offers no clue.

Cain and Abel Mystery Solved? An archeological dig sheds light on the rise of Homo sapiens and fall of Neanderthals.

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Kirk Alyn flew so George Reeves could soar. Reeves was widely considered to be the benchmark for a lot of the future Superman portrayals. He looked the part and mastered the portrayal of an American ...

In the '40s, Cain's sublime pulp fiction was the basis for such sardonic Hollywood classics as Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice; in 2001, he inspires black comedy.

It’s easy to assume that the biblical brothers Cain and Abel in Netflix’s Sandman are from Genesis — but you’d be dead wrong. They’re actually inspired by Tales From the Crypt.

28 Days of Black Movies: I can’t decide just how ridiculous this ask is in the movie ‘Cain and Abel.’ Help.

In the '40s, Cain's sublime pulp fiction was the basis for such sardonic Hollywood classics as Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice; in 2001, he inspires black comedy.

Hence another figurative parallel to Cain and Abel … An angry God banishes Cain the murderer to wander the Earth and literally brands him with a lifelong mark of shame for all to see.