In contrast to Cain, Abel is presented as an innovator, an architect, and/ or as a man who takes action. Unlike his father and unlike his elder brother who represented “the way of the world ...

Cain and Abel are born to Eve after she and Adam have sinned and been expelled from the Garden of Eden. In Genesis 3, God says to Adam, “Cursed is the ground due to you, ...

The Cain and Abel account is depicted on the Ghent Altarpiece designed by Hubert and Jan van Eyck in the 1420s. It is found in St. Bavo’s Cathedral in that Belgian city.