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From: "Rundle" <[log in to unmask]>
>check your bible again... wasn't Cain was a farmer ['tiller of the
ground']?
>the bible is a product of an agricultural society/culture, reflecting and
imposing the concerns of 600 BC and later >on very much older stories.
Interestingly enough, Cain and Abel were also a picture of good and
evil..... One a farmer and the other a hunter/gatherer..... Oliva