The primary reference for The Sandman’s Cain and Abel isn’t biblical at all ... a theme that resonates from the first page of The Sandman to the very last.

(Genesis 4:1) Most of us go through life with a child’s Bible story concept of the story of Cain and Abel. We recall that Cain brought an offering of vegetables, and according to the Midrash not ...

Man having fallen and been expelled from Eden, the Bible moves on. The first thing we learn is that Eve has a bouncing baby boy, Cain. Then another, Abel. The next thing we’re told is their work ...

He cited one of the Bible’s most famous verses, Genesis 4:9, to say people should love one another: “Then the Lord said to Cain, ‘Where is your brother Abel?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Cain ...