ABEL (EBR. JĀBHĀL, GRECO ἸΩΒΉ)

Abel (Hebrew *Jābhāl*, Greek *Iōbḗ*)

Volume VI · p. 885 · 1951

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

ABEL (Hebrew *Jābhāl*, Greek *Ἰωβή*). - Cainite, son of Lamech and Ada. He was the first to initiate the life of the nomadic herdsman (Gen. 4:20). He is the primary culture of the patriarchal Altaic, Indo-European, and Hamito-Semitic peoples.

BIBL.: W. Schmidt, *Manuale di storia comparata delle religioni*, 2nd ed., Brescia 1938, pp. 274 ff., 290 ff.; M. Sales, *La S. Bibbia*, I, Turin 1939, p. 90.