(October 21, 2018 at 12:21 pm)Bahana Wrote: There is the interpretation for why YHWH preferred Abel's offering is he sacrificed the good stuff while Cain only gave "some". I also heard Robert M. Price make the point that livestock was the preferred offering because the Israelites were sheepherders. Also notice later on Cain wandered to the land of Nod and nod means wandering. He wandered to the land of wandering.
Just more northern and southern kingdom bullshit.
"Israel" or whatever they called it was a primarily agricultural entity while the Judahites were a bunch of goat herders. After the Assyrians overran the "Israel" only the goat herders were left to tell the fucking stupid ass story. So they made themselves the heroes.
Just plain old propagandistic bullshit, as always.