Terry Glavin Quotes


Cain slew Abel. On that much the Torah and the Bible and the Qur'an agree, although in the Qur'an these first sons of Adam and Eve are Qabeel and Habeel. Cain, which is to say Qabeel, wandered eastwards from Eden to the Land of Nod with a mark of some kind on him, a curse.


Citations

Glavin, Terry. Come from the Shadows: The Long and Lonely Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan. Douglas & McIntyre, 2011, p. 14.

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Terry Glavin
Terry Glavin
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Terry Glavin (born 1955) is a Canadian author and journalist.