I've posted a detailed commentary about a Vulgate verse today over at my ReligiousReading.com blog, where you will find a discussion of some of the extra-Biblical legends about Cain and Abel:
Genesis 4: Num custos fratris mei sum
Meanwhile, for an image, here is Jan van Eyck's rendering of the slaying of Abel for his painting the Ghent Altarpiece, completed in 1432. I may be wrong, but it looks to me like Cain is slaying Abel with a jawbone - perhaps an echo of the jawbone of an ass from the story of Samson? What do you think?
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