Religious jealousy over divine favor underpins the first recorded murder

Evidence

There was also a Jewish background in antiquity. One could argue that the first recorded murder in history, the murder of Abel by Cain, was a religiously motivated assassination, since its cause was that while both were competing for God’s attention, one felt that the other was getting an unfair advantage. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 557

Categorization

• CANDY: Cain’s murder of Abel reframed as the first ‘religiously motivated assassination’ — a light, conversation-ready reframing of a familiar story.