Follow this link to read Thom Hartmann’s review of R. Crumb Illustration of the Book of Genesis. The most startling thing he says may be in the following excerpt:
According to one of the two different creation stories in Genesis, Adam and Eve gave birth to Cain and Abel, but after Cain killed Abel, he went to a nearby city and found a wife. Another city?
I don’t think my sister, the Jehovah Witness, ever told me about this version. I am going to have to do a little research before I ask her about it.
Is there a bible expert among my readers that can confirm or refute this?
Follow this link to the Jehovah Witness’s web site to see some quotes from their translation of the bible.
Here you are actually driving me this day from off the surface of the ground, and from your face I shall be concealed; and I must become a wanderer and fugitive on the earth, and it is certain that anyone finding me will kill me.” 15 At this Jehovah said to him: “For that reason anyone killing Cain must suffer vengeance seven times.”
Who are these other people? Where did they come from? I’m sure I’ll be sorry for asking.
Thanks for that link. Truly fascinating.
On 2 November 2009, Neal Conan [NPR’s ‘Talk of the Nation’] interviewed R. Crumb about ‘The Book of Genesis Illustrated.’ [30 minutes]
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120022241
I recommend listening to it.
-RichardH